Tag: Facebook
Facebook begins to shift from being a free and open platform...
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
When Facebook recently removed several accounts for trying to influence the 2018 midterm elections, it was the company’s latest move...
Apple’s $1 trillion value doesn’t mean it’s the ‘biggest’ company
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
On Aug. 2, Apple became the first U.S. public corporation to achieve a US$1 trillion valuation, making it the largest...
How new fathers use social media to make sense of their...
Tawfiq Ammari, University of Michigan
A lawyer in Bermuda became internet-famous for dancing ballet alongside his two-year-old daughter, comforting her stage fright by being there...
How your social network could save you from a disaster
Daniel P. Aldrich, Northeastern University and Danaë Metaxa, Stanford University
In early November 2017, Brooks Fisher’s neighbor in Sonoma, California, pounded on his door at...
Why not nationalize Facebook?
Blayne Haggart, Brock University
The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal is fast emerging as a watershed for our increasingly digitized society. For the first time, how to...
Why it’s so hard to #DeleteFacebook: Constant psychological boosts keep you...
S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State University; Bingjie Liu, Pennsylvania State University; Carlina DiRusso, Pennsylvania State University, and Michael Krieger, Pennsylvania State University
Here we go...
The countries that trust Facebook the most are also the most...
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
The latest shoe has dropped on Facebook: Private data on 50 million users found its way to a shadowy research outfit,...
‘Big Tech’ isn’t one big monopoly – it’s 5 companies all...
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
Public concern about Facebook’s power in society – and in politics – has skyrocketed in the wake of revelations that...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
