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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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Google Glass Wearer Attacked in San Francisco Bar. Was It a Hate Crime?

Google Glass Wearer Attacked in San Francisco Bar. Was It a Hate Crime? | Communications Major | Scoop.it

Last week, Sarah Slocum, a San Francisco-based tech writer, wore Google Glass to a bar and was cursed out and assaulted by two women who ripped the Glass off her face. In Facebook post responding to the attack, Slocum called it a “hate crime,” but the media response has ranged from hostile to dismissive. Newser's Matt Cantor referred to Slocum as a "Glasshole" and New York magazine's Adam Martin called her argument an "overly fraught discussion of some idiocy that happened on the kind of drunken night you would usually want to forget.

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Looking at the World through Google-Colored Glasses?

Looking at the World through Google-Colored Glasses? | Communications Major | Scoop.it

Later this year, Google is expected to start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and, this being a Google product, advertisements onto the lenses.

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