Legg for your Thoughts

In a full-fledged online investigation of Mary Abdoney, I found Internet accounts created as early as 2006 that reveal her as demographically middle-aged (in her 40s) and a proud member of Generation X, culturally concerned with the treatment and representation of women in modern society, and politically left leaning. Culturally, Abdoney reveals much of her beliefs through her personal blog. In a post titled “TMI” (an acronym for too much information), for example, she explainsRead more

How does our networked world make the activities of coursework, communication, and personal fulfillment easier/harder to achieve on a daily basis? Waking up at 8:30am Monday morning, I quickly realized that I hadn’t finished my homework. I still had an estimated two hour online plagiarism test due that day for my first-year writing class. With building mental pressure, I log on to the University of Indiana’s plagiarism website (accessed through Sakai) and finished the testRead more