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Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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PEW study: Teens and social media

By Melanie, on December 31st, 2007

A new report from PEW Internet illuminates some surprising trends about teens and social media. Of these findings:

Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004. Girls continue to dominate [...]

Web2.0 world changing: It’s happening already

By Melanie, on December 11th, 2007

As some of us funwall our way through the day, others are using social and participatory media to shape the future. One of these people is Social Signal’s Rob Cottingham who asks Can web2.0 change the world?

“It’s easy to get fixated on the shiny toys of the Web 2.0 world: the latest invitation-only [...]

Students 2.0

By Melanie, on December 5th, 2007

Like I’ve said before, wired students need wired classrooms – and teachers. More evidence, courtesy of the students of Kansas State University and their wired professor Michael Wesch.Read more about the video here.