Social Media, Marketing, and Platforms

Mines the current means of funding science through the academy, government, and private funding in order to show the possibilities that are being realized through the use of crowdsourcing and social media.
Notes that private organizations are currently employing social media  for scientific  research, involving the public in science as subjects, researchers, clinicians, data collectors, reporters, and venture capitalists. This facilitates new, unprecedented research and provides for the spread of more information freely to the public. Drawbacks they are dealing with include reproducibility of results and questions of authority, as science and research makes its way into the hands of the people. Panelists suggest that these problems are solvable through collaboration.
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Source is a Forbes panel discussion. The link is to the full video (approximately 53 minutes).

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"Parents, Teens, and Online Privacy"
"Most parents of teenagers are concerned about what their teenage children do online and how their behavior could be monitored by others. Some parents are taking steps to observe, discuss, and check up on their children’s digital footprints, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project."

Mines the data from Pew Research, finding that 81% of parents worry about how much information advertisers can learn about their teenagers online. Parents also worry about their teenager's interaction with strangers on the web, with 72% concerned.
Notes that 69% of parents feel that their teenager's online activity my harm future schooling or jobs. Especially with younger teenagers, parents are concerned with their children's online reputation - 69% with 63% "very concerned." The study fails to address any intervention or action that parents take based upon their worry.
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Source is Pew Research Center.

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"How To Completely Erase Yourself From The Internet"
"Your information is for sale to all kinds of different entities.
Thankfully, there's an easy way to remove it from the places where companies harvest it."

Mines the free service available from Safe Shepherd since October 2011.
Notes that Safe Shepherd will assist you in taking your name off the internet in order to avoid unwanted solicitations, emails, security issues, etc.
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• Source is Business Insider.
  
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"Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay are just four of the tech giants said to be in a major lobbying group formed to protect the interests of the technology industry, according to a report by The Washington Post."

Mines current legislation and opposition concerning internet regulation, the opponents naming their lobbying platform-"The Internet Association."
Notes that the coalition will include more big players and their names will be released later--those who stand in opposition to government legislation of the internet.
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• Source is Mashable.
  
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