Aug 15 How has social media changed the way we talk about race and justice? By Nora Daly Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Stacia Brown of ColorLines about the social media response to the situation in Ferguson, Missouri. Continue reading
Aug 14 From Michael Brown to the Central Park Five, race changes how victims are portrayed By Sarah McHaney While the unfolding events in Ferguson, Missouri, continue to disturb observers around the country, the emerging narrative is familiar. Historian Craig Steven Wilder offers his take on how citizens are responding in the streets and on social media, as well… Continue reading
Aug 12 Twitter reports 23 million users are actually ‘bots’ By Charles Pulliam-Moore Twitter has disclosed the number of its users that are actually human as opposed to account-holding, automated programs in its most recent quarterly filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the report, about 23 million -- or 8.5%… Continue reading
Aug 11 What’s the deal with the ALS ice bucket challenge? By Anna Christiansen Scores of people are filming themselves dumping buckets of ice on their heads, posting the video to Facebook or Twitter, then challenging their friends to do so, too. The chilly action is intended to raise awareness of ALS, or Lou… Continue reading
Aug 07 Twitter Chat: Who controls our perception of current events? By Nora Daly By choosing to “like” or “follow” specific stories, pages and users, we paint a picture for sites like Google and Facebook of our interests, preferences and worldview. These sites’ algorithms then set to work ensuring we are shown more of… Continue reading
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Jul 15 Celebrating 8 years of Twitter with 8 superlative tweets By Nora Daly Today is the anniversary of Twitter’s public launch. To celebrate this anniversary we've rounded up eight Twitter superlatives. Here are a few of the tweets (and accounts) that we felt earned a title in this past year. Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch Facebook’s psychological study ends up testing users’ trust By PBS News Hour Many Facebook users were upset by news that the social media network manipulated incoming content for hundreds of thousands of people without telling them. The manipulation was conducted for a study -- published in a respected scientific journal -- measuring… Continue watching
Jun 30 Have you read Facebook’s Terms of Service? If not, read on By Colleen Shalby Facebook users discovered this weekend that their News Feeds may have been altered for a psychological experiment. Continue reading
Jun 13 Social media networks blocked in Iraq to prevent insurgency plotting By Colleen Shalby The Iraqi Ministry of Communications has blocked social media networks Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in Iraq to prevent the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria from “using the outlets to organise their insurgency.”… Continue reading