A Girl Like Me

Posted A Girl Like Me post over at The Social Lens.

Social Interaction and Technology

Just made this post over at The Social Lens: Social Interaction and Technology.

How the Internet Enables Intimacy

An introductory presentation regarding the sociology of social networking and relationships. Just more reason to embrace the possibilities and to not shut it away.

Gaming: Fake achievement

Below is an interesting self analysis of sorts regarding the psychology of achievement in videogaming.

This is also interesting as an illustration of Mead's work on the social significance of play and games.

http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html

--at http://thesociologyblog.blogspot.com

A Five Year Old Learns the Alphabet

Discussion in our Introduction to Sociology class today centered around symbols and the social construction of language.

What you see below is the effort of a five year old kindergartener concentrating diligently on constructing her letters. Not too far to follow is linking these symbols to construct words. Understanding their meaning will begin to occur over the next few months as well.



--at http://thesociologyblog.blogspot.com

Do Facebook Friends Provide the Same Support As Those In Real Life?

This article recently appeared in Newsweek.  This speaks to the impact of virtual community and personal well being.

"Do Facebook Friends Provide the Same Support As Those In Real Life?"
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