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Search results for "school" (12)
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The democratisation of intimacy
Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends. Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...
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15$ fine to students using their cellphone in school
No calls, no texting, no surfing the Web. If they slip up and are caught, they better be prepared to pay the price: confiscation of their cell phone until they pay a $15 fine. After the second offense, their parent must come in to pay the $15. School...
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The role of cultural representations in the diffusion of innovation
In the 1980's a wave of research in cognitive science examined the role of preconceptions, in the form of naive theories and mental models, in shaping our understanding of the world (Gentner & Stevens, 1983, McClosky 1983, ). Research on naïve p...
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Internet Adoption in South-East Asia - Thailand 1.0
In Thailand, Internet users are about 10% of the total population. They are concentrated in Bangkok and other urban areas. Expensive hardware, low computer literacy, high telecommunications and Inte...
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A day in the life of a member of Cyworld
Jennifer, who lives and studies abroad, narrates her experience of Cyworld in a beautiful Ohmynews article. At ...
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Introduction : subverting the relationship between individuals and institutions
In the last 10 years one billion people have gleefully ad...
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School and MSN
Selina is 15 she in her last year of school before going off to do an apprentiship probably in a hotel. She lives with her mother. Her mother is an exceptionally warm and loving woman who takes care of all the children of the neighbourhood. They live...
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The schoolteacher
Marisa is a school teacher in Italy, her students are 12 years old and all have mobile phones. Recently all the teachers of the school had a meeting to discuss what to do with the continuous distraction that the phones were creating in the classroom....
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Dealing with a difficult friend
Myra is 42 and lives in England. Married with 2 children and job as an assistant. She was convinced by a friend to start using Facebook a few months ago. Initially she had a lot of fun looking up old friends having an occasional chat and looking at p...
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Only 2% of work related calls intrude on private time
Professor Bittman and co-researcher Judith Brown, from the University of New England, and Judy Wajcman, from the London School of Economics, are conducting an ongoing study into how mobile phones have affected human interactions and phone etiquette. ...
