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  1. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  2. Commuto Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Facebook job ads suggest 'mind reading' social networks could soon be a reality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Details job descriptions from the 'Building 8' group of facebook, which suggest engineering efforts in neuroscience, neuroimaging, artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
  4. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
  5. Getting your story into the media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
    For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
  6. Helping you reach the media
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
  7. HitGrab Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
  9. IntelligentSearch.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  10. It's Complicated
    The Social Lives of Networked Teens

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    In It's Complicated, danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media.
  11. Valerie Jones, M.B.A., Speaker, Social Networking, E-Commerce Expert, GrandandToyEmpower.com
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  12. Marketing Internships - Toronto
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources offers a four- to six-month unpaid marketing internships in Toronto. Tasks may include web-based marketing, social networking, identifying and contacting prospective clients, web page design, phone surveys, helping to produce newsletters.
  13. Social bookmarking
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    A brief overview based on a Wikipedia article.
  14. Social Media Group
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  15. Social Networking and the Death of the Internet
    How Do You "Like" That?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Social Networking is, by its nature, a capture environment. The companies that offer the services, particularly Facebook, host your site and control all the information on it. Facebook — a group of linked pages on a giant website — is constraining and not very powerful. In order to use it, you have to use it the way they want you to and that’s not a whole lot of “using”. But there is a comfort in having one’s options limited, being able to use something without learning anything about it or making many choices about how you use it. That alluring convenience is a poisoned apple, however.
  16. Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
  17. Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Commuto is an online social bartering network where members trade in person with other members in their cities, schools, workplaces or any other communities they create.
  18. Sources welcomes Valerie Jones
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member: Valerie Jones, M.B.A., Speaker, Social Networking, E-Commerce Expert, GrandandToyEmpower.com.
  19. Talking to the Enemy
    Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)making of Terrorists

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An anthropologiest explores the social ties and values of terrorists, studying militancy from a social science point of view. He uncovers that terrorists become radicalized through their social networks, the author dubs these group dynamics "organized anarchy".
  20. The uses of sidewalks: contact
    Chapter 3 of The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1961
  21. You Are Not a Gadget
    A Manifesto

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    The internet has spawned a hive mentality, where the crowd takes precedence over the individual.


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