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    I grew up in a relatively small city where it took no more…

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    While it was fun looking at the worldwide connections on Facebook, I thought…

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    William Huber, Tara Zepel, and Lev Manovich compare magazine pages of Science and…

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    As we all know, people all over the world use Facebook to stay…

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