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Vox: Nearly 2 Years Into The Trump Presidency, Fox News Is Still Obsessed With Hillary Clinton
Vox's Alvin Chang compares the major networks' coverage of Clinton in the era of Trump. Read The Full Article.
Watching The Media Wake Up In The Morning Through Crawler CPU Graphs
The global media has a definitive circadian rhythm of its own, with the total journalistic output of each country following…
A Large-Scale Arabic Sentiment Corpus Construction Using Online News Media
This new study by researchers Ahmed Nasser (Control and Systems Engineering Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq) and Hayri Sever…
RealClearPolitics: Is 'Doxxing' the Future of Political Protest?
Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics piece explores the role of "doxing" in the modern political discourse. Read The Full Article.
Media Matters: The Big Problem With The Term "Catch And Release"
Dina Radtke of Media Matters used the Television Explorer to examine coverage of the phrase "catch and release" on the…
Vox: On Fox News, Family Separation At The Border Isn't Trump’s Fault. It's Democrats'.
Vox' Alvin Chang explores how the networks contextualized family separation at the border. Read The Full Article.
How The Cloud Could Empower The Future Of Academic Publisher Text And Data Mining
As computational methods continue to infuse across the scholarly disciplines, academic publishers will face increasing calls to permit text and…
Verizon's Lesson That You Can't Buy Your Privacy And What It Means For Facebook
Verizon teaches us that in today’s surveillance society, purchasing a product no longer protects you from becoming a product yourself…
Could The Verizon Location Data Sale Have Compromised US Spy Networks?
Verizon’s resale of its customer location data poses not just a threat to the privacy of ordinary citizens, but in…
Verizon Reselling Its Customers' Locations Is A Reminder We Are All Just Data For Sale
Verizon's resale of its customer location data reminds us that in our surveillance society there is no way to escape…
Why Social Media Provenance Is More Important Than Ever In An AI-Falsified World
AI is rapidly reaching a point where the creation of nearly flawless artificial imagery and video will be within the…
Is Academia Still Relevant In A Big Data World In Which Companies Lead The Way?
The era of "big data" is upending not just industry itself, but the traditional balance between applied and basic research…
Facebook's Device Partners And How Nothing Has Changed Since Cambridge Analytica
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has changed little in Facebook's approach to user privacy and transparency in how it uses the…
Should Social Media Ban Profanity And Name Calling?
Social media is the elusive elixir turning us from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde, but perhaps those same companies can…
Could The U.S. Government's Move To The Commercial Cloud Stop Leaks And Breaches?
The US Government's growing move to the commercial cloud could dramatically improve its cybersecurity posture, reduce unauthorized leaking and lead…
Why Do We Keep Blaming AI For Society's Ethical Concerns?
AI has increasingly become a catch-all scapegoat for the ethical conundrums of society, but the reality is that it is…
Why Won't Facebook Talk About How Often Its Algorithms Are Wrong?
Facebook has bet the company on the success of its AI filtering algorithms and portrays them as a huge success,…
How Social Media Is Teaching Us To Emphasize The What Over The Why
Social media’s fixation on realtime and short context-free communications that reward meme-worthy virality over informed conversation and deep understanding is…
Does Facebook's "Is Facebook Good For the World" Poll Matter?
Throughout the year Facebook has been polling its users about its roll in the world, but does the survey’s design…
WashPost: James Comey Had An Outsize Effect On Media Coverage Right Before The 2016 Election
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how media coverage of several major topics evolved across the networks in the leadup…
Could Google Image Search Help Fight Fake News On Social Media?
Could we fight fake news by reconnecting shared images to their origins, using automatic reverse image search to add context…
RealClearPolitics: Why Fact Checkers Need to Accept That They Can Err
Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics piece explores the critical need for fact checking sites to be more forthcoming with their mistakes. Read…
Could AI Help Reform Academic Publishing?
Filled with explosive growth in available knowledge, widespread citation errors and increasing use of datasets and methods outside their traditional…
SINA: Trump Media Analysis
Chen Yu, a Lecturer at Wuhan University's Department of Sociology wrote this extensive analysis of a number of aspects of…