Adaptive search engines as discovery games: an evolutionary approach
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
Intelligent Social Media Indexing and Sharing Using an Adaptive Indexing Search Engine
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
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As our students live more of their lives on the internet using sites such as Facebook, YouTube, personal blogs and Second Life, those of us in the older generations may need to rethink how we can better mentor them to become good web citizens. Recently there have been a number of interesting controversies around sites that allow people to publish very personal glimpses into their lives or anonymous opinions. The posting of the video Obama Girl and similar bogus videos related to political candidates on YouTube has the potential to influence a presidential election. The recent discovery that John Makey, the CEO of Whole Foods, anonymously authored a blog that praised his company and slammed a rival he was trying to acquire in an attempt to manipulate stock prices has raised eyebrows at the Federal Trade Commission and resulted in a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission for possible illegal actions. Many college students are finding out that dumb photos of themselves appearing to be drunk or on drugs, which they posted on FaceBook as a joke along with language to support the ruse, are now preventing them from getting jobs or security clearances. The site Second Life has generated both millionaires and bankruptcies as people vie to sell virtual space to each other.