… For nearly a century, conventional wisdom has argued that we can only truly know what the public thinks about an issue if we survey a random sample of adults. An entire industry is built on this view. … Digital democracy will put these campaign professionals out of work. New […] Read more »
I Flirt and Tweet. Follow Me at #Socialbot.
From the earliest days of the Internet, robotic programs, or bots, have been trying to pass themselves off as human. … Now come socialbots. These automated charlatans are programmed to tweet and retweet. … Researchers say this new breed of bots is being designed not just with greater sophistication but […] Read more »
Twitter row has changed UK perception of the brand
Every so often the messenger becomes the story. Sometimes this is a person and sometimes a medium. In the past week Twitter, the social media platform, often used for reporting news became the news as campaigners and MPs were subjected to abuse and rape threats, while anger erupted over Twitter’s […] Read more »
Too much information
… Edward Snowden’s revelations about the panoptic scope of government surveillance have raised the hoary spectre of ‘Big Brother’. But what Prism’s fancy PowerPoint decks and self-aggrandising logo suggest to me is not so much an implacable, omniscient overseer as a bunch of suits in shabby cubicles trying to persuade […] Read more »
72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has been studying online adults’ social networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger adults continue to be the most likely social media users, one of […] Read more »
Social Media Images Form a New Language Online
… Photos, once slices of a moment in the past — sunsets, meetings with friends, the family vacation — are fast becoming an entirely new type of dialogue. … “This is a watershed time where we are moving away from photography as a way of recording and storing a past […] Read more »