social media

How do U.S. students measure up on digital literacy in social media and online news?

A recent study revealed students at an international school in Finland significantly outperformed U.S. students

New study from Ohio State University shows social media has remarkably small impact on Americans’ beliefs

Social media had only a small influence on how much people believed falsehoods about candidates

Can social media move Bitcoin prices?

Stevens Institute of Technology researcher analyzed 3.3 million tweets and 344,000 posts, verifies for the

Cyberbullying: A new technique for spotting nasty personal attacks on social media

Call them the cyberbully detectives: Researchers at CU Boulder have designed a new technique for spotting

How to locate fake users on many social networks

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and University of Washington (Seattle) researchers have developed

Investigating illegal wildlife trade on social media using artificial intelligence

Illegal wildlife trade is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity conservation and is currently

Seeing both sides of a discussion on social media via a new algorithm

Selected influential users can efficiently spread information on both sides of a controversial discussion. Social

Bots can have an invisible influence on social media bringing up an ethical gray area

A trending story on Twitter could mean thousands of people care about an issue-or that

Social media technology rather than anonymity is the problem

Problems of anti-social behaviour, privacy, and free speech on social media are not caused by

Welcome To The Age Of The Micro-Singularity

You know it when it happens: All of a sudden, everyone on the Internet is

Making good use of social media

A*STAR researchers are extracting useful information from billions of social media posts to support businesses,

Hashtag Health

SDSU geography professor Ming-Hsiang Tsou’s method of using Twitter to track the spread of influenza

One Million Acts of Innovation Attacks Youth Unemployment in Canada With Their Program “Flourish”

Flourish is a program for students or recent graduates of colleges and universities who want to

Study: Social Networks Spread Anger Much More Effectively Than They Spread Joy or Sadness

Maybe digital technology is a neutral medium, conveying all our thoughts and feelings equally well.

Making sense of patterns in the Twitterverse

If you think keeping up with what’s happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media