The social network risks losing the goodwill it built up during the Arab Spring.

"I feel like I'm in a personal hell. I didn't do anything to deserve this."

After a dramatic 24 hours, the Senate on July 13 confirmed Carla Hayden as the nation’s 14th Librarian of Congress. Hayden is the first woman, and the first African-American to serve as Librarian of Congress, and is the first professional librarian to hold the office in over 60 years.

The last few months have seen a spree of lawsuits filed against social media companies for allegedly providing material support to terrorists groups, particularly ISIS, by effectively allowing those

Facebook’s live streaming video allows people to broadcast life – and death – for the world to see, raising a new and complex set of ethical questions

Update 7/7/2016: The “message archive” section has been updated to reflect a Slack feature pointed out by Jeff Godin—thanks, Jeff!.

Archivists are figuring out which pieces of artists’ digital lives to preserve alongside letters, sketchbooks, and scribbled-on napkins.

Public institutions are increasingly reliant on data from social media sites to measure public attitude and provide timely public engagement. Such reliance includes the exploration of public views on important social issues such as gender-based violence (GBV). In this study, we examine big (social) data consisting of nearly 14 million tweets collected from Twitter over a period of 10 months to analyze public opinion regarding GBV, highlighting the nature of tweeting practices by geographical location and gender. We demonstrate the utility of computational social science to mine insight from the corpus while accounting for the influence of both transient events and sociocultural factors. We reveal public awareness regarding GBV tolerance and suggest opportunities for intervention and the measurement of intervention effectiveness assisting both governmental and non-governmental organizations in policy development.

Says news feed has "far too much information," will downgrade content from "pages."

When we first got started on Documenting the Now a few months ago Yvonne Ng raised an interesting use case of archiving video cited in…

Strangely, YouTubers are writing books to enhance their video careers.

What can be guessed about you from your online behavior? Two computer privacy experts — economist Alessandro Acquisti and computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck — on how little we know abo…

If you need credit or a place to live, companies may try to persuade you to give up even the most intimate information in your social media accounts.

Not as much as journalism needs Facebook