X (Twitter)
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?
social media mobs
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.
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
culture
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.
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
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
academia
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
culture change
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
community
Lloyd Davis [http://perfectpath.co.uk/2012/07/31/commitment-the-power-of-just-showing-up/]: > Someone needs to say they’re going to show up for it. That’s what makes stuff happen. Lots of other important things help too, but it really kicks off when someone says “I’m going to be there
cities
One of the advantages of often using the RSA House [http://www.thersa.org/house] as my London office is that there are some really excellent lunchtime events in my workplace. Today, Avner de-Shalit [http://www.deshalit.huji.ac.il/], professor of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University
charity
 [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/Queen-Rania.jpg] And now, possibly our most high-profile speaker, [Queen Rania of Jordan](http://twitter.com/queenrania). Genuine royalty, rather than the metaphorical tech royalty…It’s
community
How do teenagers navigate social networks? danah has been doing the research…