Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Category Archives: Internet
Handan við skyndilausnir: Skynsemi, skrun og vísindaleg vinnubrögð
Rýnt í gjána á milli rannsókna og tilfinningalegra/pólitískra viðbragða í Torginu á RÚV TL;DR – Hvers vegna kallar stjórnmálafólk eftir lausnum sem vísindin segja að virki ekki? Í þættinum Torginu 10. febrúar 2026 mættust fræðin og stafrænt paník almennings. Umræður … Continue reading
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Affordances, education and future technologies
I see on my stats that this article is starting to get a lot of hits. This is part of a work in progress. My thoughts on affordances are evolving as I continue to explore the topic. A couple of things are … Continue reading
Types of social media: My framework
For several years, I have been using a framework for classification of types of social media that I have attributed to boyd & Ellison, 2007. I first used the framework in a seminar that I taught at the University of … Continue reading
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Filter Bubbles: A challenge for information literacy in the 21st century
The future is a strange beast. We’re always actively constructing it but we never know what the future will actually be. A seemingly insignificant occurrence in the present can emerge as the essential foundation of a future construct and, what’s … Continue reading
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Ingress: Google shows us how to do augmented reality.
Google has made available their new massive multiplayer augmented reality game Ingress. The game uses augmented reality technology to situate the game play in the real world. As Devin Coldewey at NBC News says, “‘Ingress’ has biggest map ever: The … Continue reading
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What does Klout measure: social influence or size of ego?
Early this past summer I read about someone who had flunked out of a job interview because his Klout.com score wasn’t high enough (and here’s one about a teacher using Klout in a course). It was the first that I had … Continue reading
