Tag: Facebook
How Facebook – the Wal-Mart of the internet – dismantled online...
Jessa Lingel, University of Pennsylvania
Before the internet, people interested in body modification – not just tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, but those drawn...
Can Silicon Valley’s autocrats save democracy?
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
In late February, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an essay that laid out the social network’s vision for...
Can Facebook be sued for live-streaming suicides?
Shontavia Johnson, Drake University
In January, two different suicides were streamed using Facebook Live, a service that allows Facebook users to create and broadcast real-time...
The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news
Donald A. Barclay, University of California, Merced
Imagine, for a moment, the technology of 2017 had existed on Jan. 11, 1964 – the day Luther...
How can we learn to reject fake news in the digital...
Thomas P. Mackey, SUNY Empire State College and Trudi Jacobson, University at Albany, State University of New York
The circulation of fake news through social...
hree ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse University
The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem...
10 ways the tech industry and the media helped create President...
Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon
Three weeks after Donald Trump won a historic victory to become the 45th president of the United States, the media...
Facebook’s problem is more complicated than fake news
R. Kelly Garrett, The Ohio State University
In the wake of Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, many questions have been raised about Facebook’s role in the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
