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Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t

Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" drew the ire of the internet. A year later, she’s still picking through the wreckage.

A recent firing at The Associated Press is the latest example of the way in which our digital pasts are never far from the present, despite what early internet evangelists thought.

I was sharing my coffee shops analogy for social media spaces, boundaries, power, and negotiating our personal digital networks recently and the person I was talking with asked me to write it down …

We’re all goin’ on a twitter holiday No more tweetin’ for a week or two Fun and laughter on a twitter holiday No more tweetin’ for me or you For a week or two (With apologie…

A group's collective intelligence reflects its capacity to perform well across a variety of cognitive tasks and it transcends the individual intelligence of its members. Previous research shows that group members' social sensitivity is a potential antecedent of collective intelligence, yet it is still unclear whether individual or group-level indices are responsible for the positive association between social sensitivity and collective intelligence. In a comprehensive manner, we test the extent to which both compositional (lowest and highest individual score) and compilational aspects (emergent group level) of social sensitivity are associated with collective intelligence. This study has implications for research that explores groups as information processors, and for group design as it indicates how a group should be composed with respect to social sensitivity if the group is to reach high levels of collective intelligence. Our empirical results indicate that collectively intelligent groups are those in which the least socially sensitive group member has a rather high score on social sensitivity. Differently stated, (socially sensitive) group members cannot compensate for the lack of social sensitivity of the other group members.

On fauxpologies.

Questions of anonymity on social media are a talking point again. Making everyone use their real identities sounds good, but would it actually make things better?

A good reading for the 601 challenge-response assignment.

Is online shaming just a new version of something that humans have always done, or is it substantially different now that the shaming is taking place via the Internet?

It takes courage to apologize. Saying we’re sorry puts us in a position of vulnerability. We aren’t in con

The button that ruined the internet — and how to fix it.