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Technology & Science

Jul. 12, 2013

Social media leaves schools, courts in the dust

In 2005, a high school student was suspended for creating a fake MySpace page mocking his principal. The ensuing litigation ended last year. You remember MySpace, right? By Stefanie K. Vaudreuil


By Stefanie K. Vaudreuil


In 1994, software designer David R. Wooley aptly noted, "In 1970 few suspected that a human community could grow and thrive within the electronic circuitry of a computer ... this is not only possible, but inevitable." This "human community" has vastly expanded since the earliest incarnation of the "online community," referred to as PLATO, was created at the University of Illinois in the early 1960s. Bu...

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