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News
Date
January 14, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Social Factors

Tagged
fake news, Featured, Information, journalism, retractions, Social Factors, social media, truth}

Research Showing That Fake News Easily Fools Us Collapses

_{A recent paper claiming that low-quality news (“fake news”) spreads as quickly on social media as accurate news has been retracted by its authors.} _{News
January 14, 2019

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Ethics, Social Factors}

A team from the Shanghai Institute of Technology sought to study whether accuracy made any difference to whether a post goes viral on social media. They cited a concern about “the digital misinformation that threatens our democracy.” Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 7, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Social Factors, Technocracy

Tagged
Bots, media, Media history, science, social media}

Science Confronts Credibility Issues?

_{Not to worry, prestigious researchers blame them on social media trolls and bots} _{Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2018

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Ethics, Social Factors, Technocracy}

And another thing: The researchers phoned the Seventies and asked them to please come back. Soon. Seriously, that’s the impression I get from reading a paper in PNAS, stemming from the National Academy of Sciences’ Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium November 2017 Read More ›

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Mind Matters
Date
November 26, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media

Tagged
Advertising, François Chollet, social media}

AI Social Media Could Totally Manipulate You

_{Deep learning specialist: And the scary thing is, the AI needed is not especially advanced} _{Mind Matters
November 26, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Social Media}

Readers familiar with The Two Towers will recall that that’s precisely what Worm-Tongue did to Theoden King: The king heard nothing but what was conveyed to him from his would-be overlord by Worm-tongue, until someone separated him, rather forcibly, from his "social medium."

Is social media the best communications tool that ever happened?

_{The worst communications tool that ever happened? Or something less comfortable than either?} _{Mind Matters
November 8, 2018

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Social Factors}

We hear all three views aired frequently these days, along with many prescriptions for reform. Some sound the alarm over the success of political movements they disagree with and long for more control Read More ›

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Mind Matters
Date
September 6, 2018

Categorized
Education, Social Media

Tagged
addiction, Reclaiming Conversation (book), relationships, social media}

Smartphone 10 Conversation 0

_{We need to be more honest about the addictive nature of the device, for some.} _{Mind Matters
September 6, 2018

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Education, Social Media}

A guy on a date is not checking his phone three times in ten minutes because the world outside the restaurant is changing that fast. He is in the grip of an addiction. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 29, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Social Factors

Tagged
Silicon Valley, social media, Technocracy}

Silicon Valley as a Colonial Power

_{Irish writer asks us to look more carefully at claims about “liberation”} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 29, 2018

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Ethics, Social Factors}

The social media companies will force us to define ourselves over against the specifications of our would-be programmers. And say what you want about the conflict, it will never be dull. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 28, 2018

Categorized
Social Factors

Tagged
Advertising, Amazon, Facebook, Google, social media, Technocracy}

Giant Google’s Vulnerable Spot

_{Social media are free because we are both the content and the market} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 28, 2018

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Social Factors}

Recently, we looked at philosopher of technology George Gilder’s Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. But what form would that decline take? A look at the advertising picture offers one clue. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 22, 2018

Categorized
Social Factors

Tagged
internet awareness education, Social Factors, Social Isolation, social media, Technocracy, Unintended Consequences, YouTube}

Hell Is a “Parasocial” Place

_{Where your "friends" may not even exist} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2018

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Social Factors}

Consumer digital hells can be dreadful indeed but they are mostly of our own making. The companies that profit from them are not forcing us to live in them. That said, students should be taught in school that the internet’s virtual world features a great deal of fakery, including fake friends. Read More ›