Author: Kalev Leetaru

Much Of Our Government Digital Surveillance Is Outsourced To Private Companies

The Importance Of Canary Ads For Social Media Analytics

Sometimes Data Science Is Not About Giving Answers Its About Asking Better Questions

Data Scientists Need To Get Better About Communicating Uncertainty And Risk In Their Results

Our Smart Technologies Will Increasingly Report Us To Law Enforcement

Why Is Addictive Social Media Bad While Addictive Streaming Movie Platforms Are Good?

Social Media Is Not A Replacement For Professional Polling

Diverging Patterns Of Interaction Around News On Social Media: Insularity And Partisanship During The 2018 Italian Election Campaign

WashPost: Democrats Fret Over The Never-Ending Trump Show

Is 'Big Data' About What We Do With Our Data Not How Much Of It We Have?

The Web At 30 And Its Invisible And Omnipresent Future

Will Future Robocallers Spoof The Voices Of Our Friends And Family?

Is 'Governance By Twitter' Destroying Cooperation?

Could AI Enable The Idea Of 'Reverse Fact Checking'?

Could Forcing Thoughtful Civil Discourse Save Social Media From Its Toxicity?

A Visual Web: Would An Instagram Without Text Solve The Web's Toxicity Problem?

Instagram's Positivity Problem: Do We Actually Need Toxicity To Enjoy The Web?

Could Google's Duplex Rid Us Of Robocalls?

Could Our Future Personal Digital Assistants Curate Social Media For Us?

Could AI Navigate Automated Customer Service Phone Trees For Us?

Could Digital Assistants Be Our Personalized Toxicity Filters For Social Media?

Could Pollution-Mapping Open AI Give Us Automated Pollution Cleaning Drones?

Is Social Media Really To Blame For Our Toxic Web Or Is It Globalization And Will Community Fix It?

Would Replacing Anonymity With A Single Universal Social Media ID Fix The Web's Toxicity?

Is It Actually Possible To Solve Online Toxicity?

Could Limiting Social Media To 'Happy' Posts Fix Online Toxicity?

Washington Monthly: Have Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg Mastered the Moment?

New York Times: How Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren Cracked the Code of the 2020 Race

CNN Focuses on Trump's Health, But Says Biden's Is Off-Limits

Do We Need 'Data Critics' Like We Have Food And Movie Critics?