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Study Finds Browser Cookies Make People More Cautious Online

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

Study Finds Browser Cookies Make People More Cautious Online

Website cookies are online surveillance tools, and the commercial and government entities that use them would prefer people not read those notifications too closely. People who do read the notifications carefully will find that they have the option to say no to some or all cookies. The problem is, without careful attention those notifications become an annoyance and a subtle reminder that your online activity can be tracked. As a researcher who studies online surveillance, I’ve found that failing to read the notifications thoroughly can lead to negative emotions and affect what people do online. How cookies work Browser cookies are not new. They were developed in 1994 by a Netscape programmer in order to optimize browsing experiences by exchanging users’ data with specific websites. Th...

2Jul

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WEBINAR EDUCATION

Online July 7th: Glo’s Greatest Moments With Mark Cuban

Lessons in Leadership We will be joined by Mark Cuban, American billionaire entrepreneur, television personality, and media proprietor whose net worth is an estimated $4.7 billion, according to Forbes, and ranked No. 177 on the 2020 Forbes 400 list. In 2018 Mark presented his Lessons in Leadership discussion of How To Win. We are presenting this GLO Greatest Moment as a service to our members and guests in case they missed or just need a refresher of one of our top live presentations. Speaker Mark Cuban Date & Time Thursday, July 7th, 2022 12:00PM - 1:00PM Central Location: Online Register Now Event Speaker Mark Cuban Since the age of 12, Mark has been a natural businessman. Selling garbage bags door to door, the seed was planted early on for what would e...

An Online Media Expert Explains – What Are Dark Patterns?

4Apr

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Journalism, VIDEO REELS

An Online Media Expert Explains – What Are Dark Patterns?

Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful choices. Dark patterns can be found in many kinds of sites and are used by several kinds of organizations. They take the form of deceptively labeled buttons, choices that are difficult to undo and graphical elements like color and shading that direct users’ attention to or away from certain options. Dark patterns in subscriptions are a common example of these kinds of design choices, given the ubiquity of online subscriptions and free trials for all kinds of products and services. This kind of dark pattern might make it difficult for a user to unsubscribe, or it might automatically convert a free t...

A Feverish Legion Of Followers Struggle To Achieve Online Fame – Inspired By Kim Kardashian

20May

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CELEBRITIES, TOP FOUR

A Feverish Legion Of Followers Struggle To Achieve Online Fame – Inspired By Kim Kardashian

When Kim Kardashian “broke the Internet” with her nude selfie, it was the stunt by a socialite who's an object of fascination in our celebrity-obsessed culture. While some deride her as being “famous for being famous,” I see someone who works intensely hard at what I’ve termed glamour labor. Glamour labor is a phenomenon of the Internet age. It means investing time and effort into editing the body and self to appear as fascinating and polished in person as in one’s highly scripted, filtered and manipulated online life. It means shaping the body (by going to the gym or the salon), while simultaneously crafting one’s online image – all to appear to have achieved an elusive ideal of attractiveness. Those who epitomize the ideal are rewarded by large followings (Kim Kardashian has more than ...

Roe V. Wade – Online Data Could Be Used Against People Seeking Abortions

18May

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IN OTHER NEWS, POLITICS

Roe V. Wade – Online Data Could Be Used Against People Seeking Abortions

When the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press, many of us who have been studying privacy for vulnerable individuals came to a troubling realization: The marginalized and vulnerable populations whose online risks have been the subject of our attention are likely to grow exponentially. These groups are poised to encompass all women of child-bearing age, regardless of how secure and how privileged they may have imagined themselves to be. In overturning Roe, the anticipated decision would not merely deprive women of reproductive control and physical agency as a matter of constitutional law, but it would also change their relationship with the online world. Anyone in a state where abortion becomes illegal who relies on the internet for infor...

The Ruthless Pursuit Of Online ‘Likes’ Gives You Nothing

15Apr

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WORK

The Ruthless Pursuit Of Online ‘Likes’ Gives You Nothing

Imagine a popular social media channel that did not display the number of “likes,” mentions, impressions, followers, engagements or any other metric to show how many times one’s content has been viewed, by whom and when. A flourishing “how-to” industry has arisen dedicated to increasing “counts” on social media, while also claiming this is the silver bullet to becoming more popular, rich and famous. You can purchase the services of click-farms to artificially increase your like-counters. This potentially increases your content’s chances of being cross-syndicated, appearing higher up in newsfeeds and possibly meaning the ability to convert “online social wealth” into material wealth. In other cases, approbation markers such as likes can be used to generate popularity or condemnation of a...

Promote Your Business Online In 5 Easy Ways

27Mar

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FOR BUSINESS

Promote Your Business Online In 5 Easy Ways

ONE ~ Connect through Groups & Communities First things first, you need to connect with online groups that are similar to your business. This allows you to see what your competitors are doing and what is working with customers looking for the services/products you provide. Though this is a vital step in your online business promotion, try not to push your business through these groups. You can include a link to your business's website or blog at the end of your posts, but your primary goal is to connect not market. TWO ~ Using Listing Services Next, you need to make it easy for customers to find your business. Registering through listing services makes it easy for customers to find you using the search methods they are already familiar with. The three most notable choices are Bing, ...

How To Help Older Americans Given The Wrong Idea About Online Safety

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

How To Help Older Americans Given The Wrong Idea About Online Safety

Recently, the U.S. Social Security Administration sent out an email to subscribers of its official blog explaining how to access social security statements online. Most people know to be suspicious of seemingly official emails with links to websites asking for credentials. But for older adults who are wary of the prevalence of scams targeting their demographic, such an email can be particularly alarming since they have been told that the SSA never sends emails. From our research designing cybersecurity safeguards for older adults, we believe there is legitimate cause for alarm. This population has been schooled in a tactical approach to online safety grounded in fear and mistrust – even of themselves – and focused on specific threats rather than developing strategies that enable them to ...

What Teens See In Closed Online Communities

3Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

What Teens See In Closed Online Communities

Ever since the earliest days of the internet in the 1980s, getting online has meant getting involved in a community. Initially, there were dial-up chat servers, email lists and text-based discussion groups focused on specific interests. Since the early 2000s, mass-appeal social media platforms have collected these small spaces into bigger ones, letting people find their own little corners of the internet, but only with interconnections to others. This allows social media sites to suggest new spaces users might join, whether it’s a local neighborhood discussion or a group with the same hobby, and sell specifically targeted advertising. But the small-group niche community is making a comeback with adults, and with kids and teens. When Discord was initially released in 2015, many video game...

Tales From the Online Marketing Crypt 9: Why Cheap Websites Are More Expensive Than You Think

14Mar

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FOR BUSINESS, THE LATEST NEWS

Tales From the Online Marketing Crypt 9: Why Cheap Websites Are More Expensive Than You Think

Tales from the Online Marketing Crypt - Vol. 9 Your Website May Be Under-Performing Because It's Underpaid During one of my usual jaunts on Facebook, I came across a post where someone was making the argument to invest properly in a website, and they listed all the reasons to do so. Heck, I could have written that post myself! And as per usual, then came many responses that all pretty much said the same thing: "But what if I have no money?" Ah yes, the money objection is a big one. And a valid one too! So valid that it's something every parent has said to us when we were kids, right? I remember one summer I desperately wanted to get a pair of those beautiful black riding boots, the kind you see on equestrian shows on TV. Of course, I had no idea how much they cost, but I knew I had ...