Thoughts On Steve Jobs And Our Reaction To His Death. . . .
Last night while watching my beloved Phillies fizzle out, the Twitter-verse was going crazy with word that Steve Jobs had died. So massive and fast was the spreading of the news, that I wouldn’t have been surprised if my Blackberry…
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The Scoop On Gaming. . . .
There’s a point near the beginning of my Download seminar (a look into the media world of today’s teens) where I try to help parents and youth workers see just how much and how fast the media world has changed.…
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A Smack On Our Tweeting Fingers. . . .
Later this month I’ll be hunkering down with a group of youth workers for about 150 minutes at The National Youthworkers Convention in San Diego. During those 150 minutes I’ll be sharing for the first time some of what I’ve…
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The Game, Flash Mobs, and Phony Phone Calls. . . .
So prosecutors in Los Angeles County are deciding what they want to do with The Game. It seems that last Friday the rapper sent out a mischievous tweet to his almost 600,000 Twitter followers. The Tweet invited followers to call…
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Yesterday I Stepped Into a Time Machine. . . .
. . . and it threw me into the future that is now. Really. It’s true. Here’s what happened. I decided to head over to the library at our local college here in town. To give you some context, it’s…
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The Soul in Cyberspace. . . 14 Years Later. . .
I’m still researching this project related to the role the digital frontier and social media are playing in culture and the lives of our kids. Yesterday I spotted a book on my shelf that was published in 1997, the same…
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Youth Culture Trends That I Missed. . . .
I got an email from my friend Bret Bucklen the other day. I’ve known Bret and his family for years. He wound up majoring in sociology just like I did at the same college. Along the way, I had Bret…
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Rewarding? . . . Really? . . . .
Just like I wondered how my Dad ever survived a childhood without television, my kids wonder the same about my early years spent in the tech-free desert of the stone-age period known to them as the 60s and 70s. Technological…
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Internet Infidelity. . . .
The Anthony Weiner drama continues to unfold. While some are saying the story needs to simply go away, I disagree. It’s a story that needs to stay, be deconstructed, and be pondered as it’s really a story about the convergence…
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Do You Own Your iPhone. . . Or Does Your iPhone Own You? . . .
All this month I’ve been hunkered down doing research for our new “Digital Kids Initiative” here at CPYU. It’s our attempt to think Christianly about this brave new digital world that didn’t exist just a few short years ago. What…
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Weiner Comes Clean. . . .
So the lead story on last night’s evening news was all about the confession of New York Congressman Anthony Weiner. Yes, he did Tweet that photo and yes, it was a photo of himself. As I watched Weiner’s tearful press…
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Deconstructing A Teen Tragedy. . . .
It’s been almost two months since four promising young teens here in the Lancaster area died together in a horrific car accident. The four were all students and football players at Manheim Central High School in the community adjacent to…
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