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Web Science Pioneer Says New Frameworks Are Needed for Social Media Regulation
With even companies like Facebook running prominent ads favoring internet regulation, technologists have an important role to play in creating effective policies. For example, social ...
Evaluating the Impact of Facebook’s Ban of Vaccine Misinformation
A new Facebook policy has banned misinformation about all vaccines on its platform. Villanova University Communication professor Jie Xu, PhD, who specializes in science and ...
Trump, the Capitol, and Social Media – Let our expert answer the questions everyone is asking
Social media played a significant role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol, and its influence in shaping American politics is unlikely to wane, ...
The pros and cons of 'deplatforming' – Our experts are being asked if it works and if there’s an upside to turning people off
After an incited and encouraged crowd of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol buildings last earlier this month – social media, or at least the executives that ...
Gab, Parler and the Radical Political Rhetoric and Movements on Social Media
Expert: Wayne Weiai Xu, expert on disinformation and political divisions on social media and assistant professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Topic: ...
Lockdown teleworking impacts productivity of women more than men
When the COVID-19 pandemic led countries all over the world to lock down their economies in early 2020, there was an unprecedented global shift to teleworking ...
Social media as a weapon
Best-selling author Peter Singer talks with the Brunswick Review about winning the increasingly crowded and contentious war for attention What do Isis and Taylor Swift ...
The tug between protecting privacy and building brand loyalty
The coronavirus pandemic has put much of normal life on hold, but it hasn’t stopped hackers. According to Securityboulevard.com, in the first quarter ...
Paper ballots, risk-limiting audits can help defend elections and democracy, IU study finds
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- With just over two months before the 2020 election, three professors at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business offer a comprehensive review ...
Tune in September 13 as GSU honors its Top 40 Under 40
The Georgia Southern University Alumni Association “40 Under 40” Class of 2020 has been announced. The exemplary group will be honored during a virtual awards ceremony on Sunday, ...