society

Twitter's "them and us" problem 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?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
X (Twitter)

WhatsApp, mob justice and the desperate need for a strategic response worldwide 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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
social media mobs

Facebook just doesn't care. And yet we've handed it the keys to our civilisation 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Finstas - your other Instagram identity 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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
culture

Our Facebook masks slip a little 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Are you ready for your corporate approved social interaction experience? 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Investigating the impact of Data & Society 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
academia

A tipping point in mobile phone etiquette? 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
culture change