Graduate Online Media Design

Tech and social media companies are always in the news. Here are a few of the seminal articles that I have collected. More to come.

Microsoft's Lost Decade, Vanity Fair, August 2012
She's Playing Games with our Lives, NY Times, April 2012
The Top 10 Most Influential People Online, Business Insider, March 2011
How Twitter Evolved: 2006-2011, Buffer, June 2011
When the Data Struts Its Stuff, NY Times, April 2011
Lone Star Trailblazer, CJR, July 2010
The Good Enough Revolution, Wired, August 2009
50 Best Websites of 2009
- Time August 2009
A Reading Assignment for Media Educators and Scholars - AEJMC blog August 09
While My Guitar Gently Beeps - NY Times August 2009
10 Inspirational NY Times Multimedia & Interactive Features - 10000 Words July 09
Why is Obama's Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google - Wired July 09
The Great Wall of Facebook - Wired June 2009
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
– Wired June 2009
And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov't Info Online - Wired June 09
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - Time June 2009
How Well Do You Know Google? Newsweek January 2009
The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House? - Wired January 2009
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady - New York Magazine - Jan. 2009
Business Week Special Report on the Future of Social Networking - very comprehensive May 2008
Why Free is the Future of Business – Wired February 2008
Wired: How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web's Hottest Platform - Sept. 2007
Newsweek: Facebook Grows Up - August 2007
Time: The Future of Facebook - July 2007 - several related articles with this story.
Rebirth of Music - Wired Special Issue September 2006
Why Wilco is the Future of Music - Wired February 2005
The Long Tail – Wired October 2004
Googlemania - Wired Special Issue January 2004
Mix, Rip, Burn - Wired Special Issue March 2003


Two research articles from Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication:
"The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites"
"Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship"

News sites and blogs I read every day:
Wired Magazine - best way to stay current on issues of tech culture

Yahoo Tech News

Google Tech News

NY Times Tech

TechMeme

TechCrunch

Scobleizer

Digg Technology

Social Media Today

Web Strategy

Mashable

SXSW

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