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Twitter's "them and us" problem Paid Members Public
Twitter has fallen a very long way from its roots as the place where you went to find out what was happening - and to discuss it. If it's just about an elite telling us their thoughts, does it really matter all?
WhatsApp, mob justice and the desperate need for a strategic response worldwide Paid Members Public
Messaging apps are allowing misinformation to spread faster than ever before, and tactical responses aren't working. We need to address this at a societal level, with research and education.
Facebook just doesn't care. And yet we've handed it the keys to our civilisation Paid Members Public
Nearly a month ago, The London Review of Books – of all places – published the most eviscerating attack on Facebook [https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product] I’ve yet seen. And the more you read, the more you find yourself nodding along in a mixture of agreement and
Finstas - your other Instagram identity Paid Members Public
There’s no small irony that the sheer manufactured fakeness of so many Instagram accounts has provoked a e]rsponse, with somewhat more real accounts called Finstas – for fake Instagrams: [https://qz.com/1065732/finstas-or-fake-instagram-accounts-expose-the-troubling-way-that-work-is-taking-over-our-lives/] > But shaping your Instagram and Facebook accounts to appeal to potential employers is restrictive.
Our Facebook masks slip a little Paid Members Public
Second video of the day: It’s rather ironic that it hit the web a few days before the news that Facebook is running experiments on our emotions [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229754.900-even-online-emotions-can-be-contagious.html#.U7KOUFbtlbz] . There’s a whole bunch of interesting research to be done on constructed
Are you ready for your corporate approved social interaction experience? Paid Members Public
Cliff Watson [https://medium.com/understandings-epiphanies/aae8d5f880cc]: > You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to mean the exact opposite of what it’s meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define “social” as once- or twice-removed ego validation
Investigating the impact of Data & Society Paid Members Public
Well, this looks very interesting [http://www.datasociety.net/initiatives/fellows-program/]: > Data & Society is currently looking to assemble its inaugural class of fellows. The fellowship program is intended to bring together an eclectic network of researchers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy creators, journalists, geeks, and public intellectuals who are interested
A tipping point in mobile phone etiquette? Paid Members Public
Interesting idea in a New York Times Bits blog interview with the woman behind the I Forgot My Phone video [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/disruptions-more-connected-yet-more-alone/?_r=1&] : > Ms. deGuzman’s video may have landed at one of those cultural moments when people start questioning
