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Haven’t heard of Second Life? It’s a 3-D virtual world built by users or “residents” worldwide. Imagine the video game World of Warcraft, but no game, just a cyber-community evolving […]

Anti-masturbation crusader Christine O’Donnell beat establishment favorite Rep. Mike Castle last night in Deleware’s GOP senate primary, with a helping hand from the Tea Party Express. O’Donnell first rose to […]

Murdoch is putting up paywalls and Jobs is censoring risqué apps. Have we reached the limits of free information exchange that everyone predicted from the Internet? What’s coming next?

Looks like the the folks at the Project for Excellence in Journalism are about to launch a very interesting and much needed monthly media content analysis. Funded by the Pew […]

“New technology could allow people to dictate letters and search the internet simply by thinking, according to researchers at Intel who are behind a mind-reading computer project.”

“The Pacific island hoped the sale of its ‘.tv’ suffix to websites would boost its troubled economy. Now it says it is being deprived of millions in royalties.” The Independent reports.

In a guest post today, AU graduate student Allison Kind takes a look at the social media campaign behind the launch of comedian Conan O’Brien’s new show on TBS.–Matthew Nisbet […]

Nothing like a good Nature paper to get the media’s attention, especially when it was about the biggest air traffic disruption in almost a decade. Of course, the headlines I […]

“How dizzyjam.com, muzu.tv and The Vynyl Factory are staging a musical revolution.” The Telegraph reports on three Internet startups that are working to change the music industry.

People tend to self-select themselves into ideological echo chambers, says Nisbet.

Atheists honed their online chops earlier than most religious bloggers, but church-goers have the advantage of large non-virtual communities that can be leveraged on the Internet.

Double blind peer-review in science and other fields has been the norm for decades. Now some scholars, as featured at the NY Times this week, are arguing that peer-review needs […]

Traditional political wisdom pushes the notion that a president has a magic wand bestowed upon him once he gets into the White House, a wand that should be able to […]

Last week, I detailed the growing use of YouTube as a strategic communication tool. Now, in today’s Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, and in other papers across the country, there […]

Internet dating sites in India report that educated women are now less interested in meeting US men who work on Wall Street and more interested in marrying resident civil servants.

Psychiatrist Norman Doidge, author of “The Brain That Changes Itself,” discusses how neuroplasticity can be hijacked by an addition to pornography.

“Comments on news stories are, in a sense, our new civic space, but minus all the social rules.” The Atlantic says subscription services could clean up online comment sections.

This week’s On the MediaspotlightsRushmore Drive, the new search engine marketed to African Americans (audio above). As the program describes, the search engine uses a unique algorithm to find those […]

Why is it so important to provide the wider American public with readily available and scientifically accurate “frames” that re-package complex issues in ways that make them personally meaningful and […]

The fact that technological power comes in smaller, faster and cheaper objects is a very important observation that underlies many of the phenomena around us today.

U.S. human rights diplomacy is usually code for economic policy, says The Economist’s Babbage blog. So why can’t the State Department openly talk about development as a worthwhile goal?

TO have lived away from Britain and then to return is to realise that Britain is an increasingly parochial country, and one in which what passes for media debate is […]

“In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown,” says The Guardian. The English daily looks at where the Net is taking us.

On April 24, investigative reporter Brooks Jackson and UPenn professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson are set to release a new book that is sure to be of interest to Framing Science […]

In my most recent book “Physics of the Impossible,” I define three classes of impossibilities in regards to technology. Class One impossibilities are technologies that are impossible today but don’t […]

“The Internet-versus-books debate is conducted on the supposition that the medium is the message. But sometimes the medium is just the medium,” says David Brooks.

While surveillance that results in a speeding ticket may curb our wayward morals, Internet surveillance has no such benefit. Beware the illusion of your public persona, says The Economist.

Media consultant Frédéric Filloux rejects the notion that the internet has been taken over by mobile applications and that the web as we know it will soon be dead.

Articles at The Times (of London) now sit behind a paywall: two bucks a day or four bucks a week; The New York Times is building a paywall as you […]

From commercial airplanes whose exhaust trails are secret experiments in weather control to the New Jewish World Order behind the Federal Reserve, everyone is out to get the paranoid Right.