Is There Anything Useful About Cancel Culture?
Greater Good In Brief,
“Cancel culture” has a bad reputation. There is growing anxiety over this practice of publicly shaming people online for…
Why Did Netflix Release Precious Viewing Data?
Psychology Today,
By releasing viewing data, Netflix could again nudge consumers towards popular titles, while also further develop their brand…
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Demos
The Gradient,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has an increasing say in the range of opportunities we are offered in life. Artificial neural…
Netflix and Behavioural Science
Psychology@LSE,
Netflix has exploded as the world’s foremost On Demand Video platform, and a growing name in the world of content production.
Israel’s vaccination rollout: short term success, but questions for the long run
Latest BMJ blogs,
As of 28 January 2021, Israel continues to be the country with the highest rate of vaccine doses administered per capita. Among…
Divine Intervention: Can Historically Black Fraternities
Political Science Now,
By Caroline…
What’s wrong with Facebook’s plan to sign up 4 million voters
Co.Exist,
Facebook has launched the largest voter registration effort in history. But this isn’t just any election season—and Facebook isn…
Growth Teams Have the Tools to Be Coronavirus Anti-Growth Teams
Feed: All Latest,
Tech companies that have perfected viral growth need to do more to help stop the spread of misinformation—and ultimately, the…
Le problème de la publicité électorale, ce n'est pas l'élection, c'est le ciblage.
affordance.info,
La polémique est récente et elle concerne leblocage (puis le déblocage), par Twitter, d'une campagne publicitaire du…
College Students, Campus Culture, and Political Participation
National Center for Institutional Diversity,
By Caroline HarperPhoto by Alexis Brown on UnsplashSince 1996, the number of Americans eligible to vote and those who cast…
Trump’s ‘Racist’ Midterms Ad Backs Facebook Into a Corner
Webmonkey,
Facebook took down Donald Trump’s ad for violating its policies, but you can still watch the video on his profile.
The Importance of Informed Consent in Social Media Research
Psychology@LSE,
In light of the recent data breach between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, Ilka Gleibs revisits her blog on the importance of…
The Importance of Informed Consent in Social Media Research
Psychology@LSE,
In light of the recent data breach between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, Ilka Gleibs revisits her blog on the importance of…
How Facebook could be a force for good
Wonkblog,
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg appears Tuesday for a Senate hearing. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Facebook CEO Mark…
What To Expect When Mr. Zuckerberg Goes To Washington
Feeds,
What To Expect When Mr. Zuckerberg Goes To WashingtonVictoria Bassetti April 6, 2018 The Facebook CEO is a master of contrition.
The final days of Labour’s Facebook GE2017 campaign
Media Policy Project,
One of the reasons for Labour’s surprising performance in this year’s general election has been said to be voter turnout – which…
You can now call your elected officials through Facebook
The Switch,
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) Since the election in November, U.S. lawmakers h…
Please, Tell All Your Friends That You’re Voting
scienceofus,
Humans are social creatures. They’re also, according to the people that study democracies, social voters. So if you want your…
More and more people get their news via social media. Is that good or bad?
The Monkey Cage,
Sometimes it seems that Twitter is the Trump campaign’s main way to communicate his message. So it’s hard to believe that this…
Hitchcockowska historia badań nad perswazją
nic prostszego,
Wyborczą strategią stosowaną zwłaszcza w krajach anglosaskich – gdyż historyczne jej korzenie sięgają rozwoju demokracji w XVII…
Boosting the vote may be as easy as saying you’ll ask
Ars Technica,
(credit: flickr user: hjl) When people think they’re being watched, they’re more inclined to behave themselves. This…
The New Mind Manipulators
Resilience,
A few dominant institutions affect how you feel, act and vote... without you ever knowing about it. Mind control is happening…
Great idea
ACP Internist,
Occasionally, I come across something that is so profound that it illuminates how I think about a whole host of other things.
How using search engines impacts voter decision-making
Journalist's Resource,
In this 2015 study, researchers describe a "search engine manipulation effect" and determine what populations are most…
The Importance of Informed Consent in Social Media Research
LSE Behavioural Science,
By Ilka Gleibs Informed consent is important in large-scale social media research to protect the privacy, autonomy, and…
How analysing social media data can help determine whether or not people will vote.
Democratic Audit UK,
Political scientists have been trying to understand how political campaigns affect voter turnout for decades. Now, with the…
How analyzing social media data can help determine whether or not people will vote.
USAPP,
Political scientists have been trying to understand how political campaigns affect voter turnout for decades. Now, with the…
The importance of informed consent in social media research
Impact of Social Sciences,
Informed consent is important in large-scale social media research to protect the privacy, autonomy, and control of social…
James Grimmelmann: The Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study: Sources
Planet Code4Lib,
This post rolls up all of the major primary sources for the Facebook emotional manipulation study, along with selected news and…
On the ethics of Facebook experiments
The Monkey Cage,
This January 30, 2014 file photo taken in Washington,DC, shows the splash page for the social media internet site Facebook. AFP…
The Facebook Emotion Study in a Broader Context
From The Lab Bench,
Which line matches the first line, A, B, or C? In the Asch conformity experiments, people frequently followed the majority…
In defense of Facebook
[citation needed],
[UPDATE July 1st: I’ve now posted some additional thoughts in a second post here.] It feels a bit strange to write this post’s…
Ten Findings About Facebook for its 10th Birthday
Psych Your Mind,
Happy Birthday, Facebook!Over the past ten years, Facebook has added a new dimension to the social lives of over a billion…
Social media helps forge links with voters, but the ‘ground war’ remains much more important for election campaigns
USAPP,
The question of whether web 2.0 technologies work in ‘getting out the vote’ is one that remains the subject of some debate.
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog,
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2 weeks: Tweets…
The value of networks
OUPblog,
By Michele Catanzaro and Guido…
NPR, Social Media, and Changing Human Behavior for the Better.
the Anthropologist in the Stacks,
NPR is once again doing me a great service, in broadcasting just the right stories to help me think about all of the things in…
Weekend Links
Fight Entropy,
1) Alternate markets in life insurance, Apollo 11 edition2) A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political…
Links 9/14/12
naked capitalism,
JFK airport workers accused of stealing $750,000 worth of mini liquor bottles, cigarettes Raw…
‘Social Voting’ Really Does Rock the Vote
Wired Science,
Image: Ho John Lee/Flickr By John Bohannon…
Study recruits 61 million participants via Facebook, gets some to vote
Nobel Intent,
playerx Despite the importance of Congressional representation, barely a third of eligible US voters cast a ballot…