Mar 23 Watch Turkish and Chinese Social media users bypass crackdowns By PBS News Hour Hari Sreenivasan explores the methods social media users utilize to circumvent attempts to stifle online free speech. He talks with a 16-year-old in Istanbul who is dealing with Turkey’s official ban on Twitter using a VPN, or virtual private network. Continue watching
Mar 22 Circumventing the Turkish Twitter crackdown By Hari Sreenivasan After the government in Turkey attempted to ban Twitter on Friday, social media savvy youth in the country almost immediately found ways around the block. Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch Using social media to scour the ‘haystack’: More than 3 million join search for Flight 370 from home By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 13 Watch Revolutionaries around the world add new social media networks to tech toolkit By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 13 Twitter Chat: Who are the women who have had the biggest impact on society? By Bridget Shirvell March is Women’s History Month and this week during #NewsHourChats we will discuss the contributions of women both past and present and the glass ceilings still left to break. Continue reading
Mar 01 Fighting social media ‘thinspiration’ with messages of self-acceptance By Colleen Shalby Type the terms #thinspiration, #thinspo or #ana into various social media networks, and a disturbing underground world comes into focus. Images of emaciated legs and protruding ribs are flanked by words like "starving for perfection" and drastic tips to drop… Continue reading
Feb 28 Can tweets help curb the spread of HIV? By Geoffrey Lou Guray A new article in the journal Preventive Medicine says researchers might be able to learn more about HIV outbreaks — and even help to prevent them — by coupling location data from certain tweets with location data… Continue reading
Feb 20 Watch Messaging monopoly? Why Facebook is willing to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 20 Is WhatsApp really worth the $19 billion price tag? By Colleen Shalby On Wednesday, Facebook acquired messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, a number that left many scratching their heads, including “The End of Big” author Nicco Mele. “The valuation is crazy to me,” Mele said in… Continue reading
Feb 20 Celebrating 10 years of ‘hot’ (or not) Facebook innovations By Colleen Shalby, Frank Bi Of all of Facebook’s most Facebook-y features from the past 10 years, we ask: Which do you “like”?… Continue reading