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Free Post polarisation Chat app groups can lead to more extreme views We know how closed groups work — and that suggests that a shift to chat apps will only increase polarisation.
Free Post satire Partisan satire and the mechanisms of unintentional misinformation The Washington Post has detailed the vicious circle between two different political groups that is breeding unintentional misinformation - and increasing polarisation
Free Post Twitter Twitter to UnLike Likes? Could Twitter be about to kill the Like? What impact would that have on the network?
Free Post facebook The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook The attitude Mark Zuckerberg is displaying towards news suggests a deep ignorance of the true dynamics of news and its role in society.
Free Post facebook What causes Fake News to spread? People. For all the panic, soul-searching and debate about the “fake news” phenomenon, there’s one basic truth I rarely see discussed. Much of the blame for the spread of “fake
Free Post psychology Social media and the annihilation of self One of the cornerstones of much social media theory is that it enables a constructed self: we show off the best version of ourselves. And it’s a neat theory
Free Post ISIS ISIS recruits women via social media ISIS recruits women via social media How ISIS uses social media to recruit women: “The moment you indicate any sort of interest in ISIS or ask any questions about it
Free Post creativity What does it mean to be creative? Compelling exploration of how creative minds function: As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an “individual,
Free Post celebrities The celebrity, everyone's social media pseudo-friend Interesting exploration of the pseudo-relationships with celebrities that social media enables: Spitzberg describes how a fan might respond to something like a celebrity tweet and then, days later, see an unrelated tweet from the same celebrity and read meaning into it because they’ve
Free Post creativity Naming that GoPro tune If you watch a number of GoPro-type extreme sports videos, you’re probably deeply familiar with this track: This tune is indelibly marked in my head as the “Le Web tune”, because as I sit in the main stage area, finishing liveblog posts, high-energy
Free Post bereavement The three paths of grief There's many paths through grief, but none of them are easy.
Free Post ebooks Matter: is its long-form science journalism worth reading? How is Kickstarted long-form science journalism startup Medium performing? Pretty well, so far…
Free Post psychology The psychology - and neurochemistry - of social media Absolutely fascinating look at the neuroscience that underlies behaviour patterns on Twitter and other forms of social media: Researchers have previously shown that certain online activities–such as checking your e-mail or Twitter stream–stimulate the brain’s reward system. Like playing a slot
Free Post advertising Allister Frost: Noble marketing through brain hacking? *Liveblog: open to error, inaccuracies and howling typos*** ** Allister Frost, managing director, Wild Orange Media Have we ever been to Go Ape? He has. And he’s talking about the dissonance between knowing you’re safe (because you have a cable attached to you)
