Study of vaccine-related Facebook ads reveals ongoing challenges to public health In a year that has seen the largest measles outbreak in the US in more than two decades, the role of social... Read more
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
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
In a digital world where many adults remember a time before personal computers and the internet existed, its not surprising that ethics policies and practices are still catching up to the te... Read more
Workplace Surveillance Sees Good and Bad A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse. Advanced technological tools are beginning to make it possible to measure and monitor e... Read more
The immediacy and fast pace of the Internet can be magical. But when someone makes a comment that the masses disagree with, a mob with 140-character pitchforks can develop in seconds and the... Read more
The Alert4All solution is a new public warning system Since 2011, eleven research teams from six European countries have been looking into the fastest and most effective ways of warning the... Read more
Clicking a ‘Like’ button on Facebook can make people less likely to donate to a cause in the future, says research from UBC’s Sauder School of Business. Would-be donors skip giving when offe... 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
