Louise Kelly, Gayle Kerr, and Judy Drennan (QUT): Avoidance of Advertising in Social Networking Sites: The Teenage Perspective. Internet Addiction: What once was parody may soon be diagnosis. More and more and more on Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky. Danah Boyd on why privacy is not dead: The way privacy is encoded into software doesn't match the way we handle it in real life. Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? Yes, but with some qualifiers. As data volumes continue to grow, it's clear that the Internet's infrastructure needs upgrading; what's not clear is who is going to pay for it — Web activists fear the development of a two-tier Internet, where corporations have priority and dissenting voices get pushed to the margins. Esther Dyson on the future of Internet search. The online state of nature: Why has Internet discourse devolved into a "war of every man against every man"? The Wheel of 4chan: Online forum gets spin from Fox to Anonymous (and more). The myth of online inertia: Rumors of the web's memory are greatly exaggerated. The virtual curmudgeon: Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of virtual-reality technology, has more recently become an outspoken critic of online social media. Larry Greenemeier on re-thinking the Internet with security and mobility in mind. From Vanity Fair, Sean Parker is the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous. Mark Zuckerberg opens up: The C.E.O. of Facebook wants to create, and dominate, a new kind of Internet.
