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Life As a Series of Media Interrupts
By Terry Calhoun
In the ocean of media that we live in, what we think of
as 'life' may already just be a series of 'media interrupts.'
In the year and a half that I spent with the US Navy's
Underwater Demolition Team 13, in 1969-70, I spent far less
time each day immersed in water than I now spend immersed
in media. So do you, unless you happen to be related to Aquaman.
I visited Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana,
last week for the "Greening of the Campus VI" conference and
spent some time with SCUP member Donald King, Jr., associate
director of University Computing Services there. From him,
I learned that BSU's Center for Media Design was about to
publish a major research report on Americans' use of media.
This week the report came out, and it's a doozy.
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IT NEWS
We Spend Two-thirds of Our Waking Hours Immersed in Media
That's what a new study from Ball State University finds: 30 percent
of our time using media exclusively and 39 percent of our
time using media while doing something else. (USA Today) Read more
TXTING: Teens Are MFI (Mad For It)
If you're over 30 it may seem strange to you, but text-messaging
is an amazingly popular social tool for today's young people.
(News-Record, Greensboro, NC)
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The Duke University Tech Toys in the Classroom: The Saga Continues
This academic year the program uses a more diverse array of handheld
devices. Think: GPS technology for primate behavior studies, or
studying student-lawyer performance via video. (The Chronicle, Duke
University)
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RESOURCES
Oregon State University Leader In Study Of Computer,
Information Ethics
What do you feel like if you are required to leave your cell phone at home
for 48 hours? They study that kind of stuff at OSU.
(Medford News) Read more
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DEALS, CONTRACTS, AWARDS
Bryant University Commits to Open-Source Future With IBM
IBM announced that Bryant University, (RI) ranked
the second most connected campus in America, has joined the
open-source computing world by moving its entire data center
from proprietary Sun Solaris systems to an IBM microprocessor
architecture running on the open-source Linux operating system.
(Marketwire) Read more
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NEW TECHNOLOGY
World’s First International Real-time Streaming
Of 4K Digital Cinema Over Gigabit IP Optical Fiber Networks
At the iGrid 2005 meeting in San Diego, attendees viewed 4k digital video
streamed from Keio University in Japan - that's video
that is four times sharper than commercially-available HD
television. (Physorg.com) Read more
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