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...second experiment, 50 students were similarly divided into two groups, this time in equally bright rooms, but one group was given sunglasses to wear and the other glasses with clear lenses. Each volunteer was then placed before a computer and told to interact - via chat only - with a partner in another room, who was actually one of the researchers. The volunteers were given $6 to divide any way they wanted between themselves and their partner. There was no question of honesty on the line - keeping the entire $6 and giving the partner nothing was a permissible choice - but there were...
...theory, Chatroulette is one of the best things ever dreamed up for the Internet. You come home, you’re bored, and within seconds there’s a whole world of excited cyber-friends just itching to chat you up. Yeah, right...
...times I’ve logged into the bootleg Web site, I didn’t exactly land on people interested in sharing a meaningful, late-night chat (that is, the few times I was lucky enough to get people on the other end and not just full-screen close-ups of some very excited parts of the male anatomy...
First there were the AOL chat rooms, the pioneer of forums for online creepers and the occasional renegade tween to unite nationwide. Then MySpace came along and ratcheted it up a notch, giving a face to the cyber freak in the form of the emo bathroom mirror photoshoot. And even for the high-brow college crowd, Facebook arrived to provide the perfect venue for creeping clandestinely—without compromising class. But no site has exploded onto the social networking scene quite as absurdly and gloriously as Chatroulette...
Yesterday’s Wireside Chat, which was co-organized by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Open Video Alliance organization, was broadcast live over the Internet and included questions for Lessig submitted through Twitter...