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If you’re interested in how Facebook works as a personal archiving tool or want to teach a class about it, this post’s for you!
In the last week, I’ve thought a lot about what I might do as a listener and a speaker on the internet to try to preserve the good while saving my head and heart from the worst of the shouting. Thi…
A UK startup has developed software for landlords that lets them analyze potential tenants using data from their social media accounts. Score Assured claims its service is simply another way for...
A targeting system to find “preferred audiences” for posts, news stories, and videos won’t help publishers and groups connect to the well-known protest movement.
One of the highest priorities for the DocNow project is to address the ethical issues around the collection, preservation, and sharing of…
That may not seem transparent. But politicians on Twitter are making our politics more riven
A new analysis finds a “mass exodus” of the platform’s most popular accounts.
On the morning of May 12, LinkedIn, the networking site devoted to making professionals “more productive and successful,” emailed scores of my contacts...
The fight to make law enforcement take online threats seriously
A page on Liz Denys's personal site
Its algorithms are as infused with bias as any human decision, but neither it nor its audience thinks of Facebook as a news organization with editorial responsibilities.
Light-skin-tone symbols are used far less often in the U.S. than their darker counterparts. Does shame explain the disparity?
Move comes as Silicon Valley publicly battles the US intelligence agencies.
As social media proliferates, a new industry has sprung up to weed out deviant content. Meet the watchers on the web.
For teachers, Twitter is part of an essential 21st century toolkit, but many people don't know how to use it well. Here are six ways to get more out of Twitter.
The first scandal in the fact that UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi paid consulting firms like IDMLOCO more than $175,000 to improve her online reputation is, of course, that such spending is an ab…
Post contributed by Matthew Farrell, Digital Records Archivist. At the University Archives, we work hard to dispel the stereotype that we are merely reactive documenters of Duke’s history, that we wait to receive evidence of activity reflected in the records of the offices, organizations, and bodies that donate or transfer materials to us. We pursue student … Continue reading Archiving Social Media about Duke Activism →
Even before it was the title of a movie, the phrase “the social network” was synonymous with Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg’s startup snatched the title...
Its business model relies on users sharing personal data instead of cat videos, but that is happening less and less – and it’s a devil of Facebook’s own making