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We've watched Facebook bend to government censorship and the company will do it again, says Jarrett Drake. It's foolish to think otherwise.
On September 27th, 2016 I was part of a panel titled “Concerns for Data Scholarship” at the Library of Congress’ symposium, Collections As…
How the Seattle Police Secretly—and Illegally—Purchased a Tool for Tracking Your Social Media Posts
We live in an era of increasing automation. But as machines make more decisions for us, it is increasingly important to understand the algorithms that produce their judgments.
The language of the internet doesn't follow the rules of English.
2,700 Twitter users told BuzzFeed News about their struggles with abuse on the social network.
The company's Jigsaw offshoot is on a mission to protect the Internet's most vulnerable. Trouble is, doing good is a lot harder than "Don't be evil."
In the space of a single day, Facebook has managed to:
I never expected that my humiliation would come at the hands of a popular brand of dictionary.
The Twitter API is a powerful tool for archiving, but its use poses particular challenges for archivists.
New research traces the divides in people's paths around the web.
Clever stuff about avoiding context collapse, and how Snapchat and Instagram have different tones.
Engaging in conflict via email rarely results in a good resolution, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore, who offers advice on how to avoid it.
According to Twitter's rules, "you may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender ide
In a 2015 piece, PW columnist Brian Kenney jumpstarted a frank conversation about library reference. A year later, librarians tell us why that article struck a chord, and how reference is changing.
They’re turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse
Page from the Center for Solutions to Online Violence. Infographics and a good webliography.
President Obama's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram posts will follow the exiting leader out of the Oval Office, leaving a blank slate for his successor.