You do not necessarily have to follow online cats on social media to read the book, but if you do, you might have come across one or the other cat-inspired linguistic process before or have perhaps found a meowlogism not mentioned in the book. Yet, regardless of your online habits, a curiousity for all things […]
Read MoreJoshua A.T. Fairfield, author of Runaway Technology, on hate speech, disinformation, and technology,
Read MorePeople fight about all sorts of things online. Most of you probably don’t spend a lot of time reading comments on YouTube, but you probably know they’re not particularly intellectually stimulating places. I’ve been interested in why this is the case, why there’s so much drama online, for the past ten years. My most recent book ‘Religious Talk Online’ looks at how Christians, […]
Read MoreAlthough the results of the US presidential election took many by surprise, Twitter analysis would have indicated that Donald Trump was winning the social media war. 'Twitter: A Digital Socioscope' provides an in-depth view of latest research dealing with the biases, misinformation, and state-of-the-art electoral forecasting.
Read MoreEmergency situations force us to take critical decisions in a very short time. Often, the first place people turn to for information is social media. A combination of human and machine intelligence can help make sense of the immense amount of data that comes from these widely varied perspectives and posts.
Read MoreDavid A. Schweidel, the co-author of Social Media Intelligence, outlines the terms of service we agree to when we search in Google, log in to Facebook, and Tweet, and how today's social media innovators may be invading our privacy and learning more about us than we'd like.
Read MoreDean Anthony Gratton discusses the implications of our virtual communities and how global connectedness is changing the way we live.
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