Listening: Refusing Facebook Has Social Cost

  Right click the picture and to open the link in a new window and then click on the Audio file to listen to the discussion between Nora Young and Alice Marwick (or read the summarized article  if there is not enough time to listen to the entire interview)

1. What is "technology refusal"? What is your experience?
2. What are the costs of opting out of technology?
3. Explain the business model of "free" social-networking sites.
4. How does the speed of new technology affect the decision to opt out?
5. What role does age seem to play in opting out of technology?
6. Where is most social-networking technology created and how does this affect people in other parts of the world?

More articles to reflect on regarding the internet and social media:

 Nick Harding's anthropological insight on the Science of the Social Network

Michael Agger talks about Nicholas Carr's book The Shallows  and how the internet is changing the way we think and process information in this article: The Internet Diet

Mitch Joel writes about What You Always Need to Remember About the Internet

Cynthia Reynolds' article in Macleans Magazine on Why Your Teenager Can't Use a Hammer