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    Listening Devices on Buses?

    Looking for ways to deter crime, the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) considered adding listening devices to the video recorders already installed on its buses.   As a first step, the agency wrote the state Attorney General’s office asking for a legal opinion about the idea. The Attorney General’s office posted the MTA request on its […]

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    References

    1.         Oldenburg, R., The Great Good Place. 1989, New York: Paragon House. 2.         Wellman, B. and S. Wortley, Different Strokes From Different Folks. American Journal of Sociology, 1990. 96(3): p. 558-88. 3.         Erickson, B., The Relational Basis of Attitudes, in Social Structures: A Network Approach, B. Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz, Editors. 1997, JAI press: Greenwich, […]

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    Health Care and Fort Hood Dominate the Blogs

    The new media world divided its attention between two stories last week: the progress of health care reform in Congress and the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings. On Twitter, technology-related issues topped the agenda. And on YouTube, that soccer player just won’t go away.

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    Appendix A: Extended Literature Review

    What role might new technologies play in how core networks have changed in the past 20 years? Other scholarship provides some support for the notion that mobile phone use may play a role in a trend toward smaller, less diverse core networks. At the same time, there is less evidence to suggest that internet use […]