A recent study revealed students at an international school in Finland significantly outperformed U.S. students on tasks which measure digital literacy in social media and online news. The r... Read more
Social media had only a small influence on how much people believed falsehoods about candidates and issues in the last two presidential elections, a pair of new national studies found. And F... Read more
Stevens Institute of Technology researcher analyzed 3.3 million tweets and 344,000 posts, verifies for the first time social media’s effect on cryptocurrency Bitcoin is on fire. The ul... Read more
Call them the cyberbully detectives: Researchers at CU Boulder have designed a new technique for spotting nasty personal attacks on social media networks like Instagram. The new approach, de... Read more
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and University of Washington (Seattle) researchers have developed a new generic method to detect fake accounts on most types of social... Read more
Illegal wildlife trade is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity conservation and is currently expanding to social media. This is a worrisome trend, given the ease of access and populari... Read more
Selected influential users can efficiently spread information on both sides of a controversial discussion. Social media has become an important news source for a majority of adults. A common... Read more
A trending story on Twitter could mean thousands of people care about an issue-or that some computers are doing their jobs. New research from the University of Georgia found that Twitter... Read more
Problems of anti-social behaviour, privacy, and free speech on social media are not caused by anonymity but instead result from the way technology changes our presence. That’s the startling... Read more
You know it when it happens: All of a sudden, everyone on the Internet is talking about the same thing. What does it mean for the future of information? Last month, over a billion people aro... Read more
A*STAR researchers are extracting useful information from billions of social media posts to support businesses, governments and healthcare professionals In the second it takes to ‘like’ this... Read more
SDSU geography professor Ming-Hsiang Tsou’s method of using Twitter to track the spread of influenza is producing results. As the United States enters the sniffly, sneezy heart of flu... Read more
Flourish is a program for students or recent graduates of colleges and universities who want to use their creative skills to help interesting companies grow. It is unique in the way it train... Read more
Maybe digital technology is a neutral medium, conveying all our thoughts and feelings equally well. Or maybe, as tech hype tells us, our apps and gadgets skew positive, liberating us to do g... Read more
If you think keeping up with what’s happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by 7 billion — and you’ll have a sense... Read more
