The Importance Of Canary Ads For Social Media Analytics
Specially crafted social media ads known as ‘canary ads’ can be used to assess baseline platform changes, ad selector deviations…
Sometimes Data Science Is Not About Giving Answers Its About Asking Better Questions
Rather than acting as false evangelists perpetuating misleading stereotypes, data scientists would do better to clearly communicate the risk and…
Data Scientists Need To Get Better About Communicating Uncertainty And Risk In Their Results
As the corporate and governmental decision-making process is increasingly data-driven, data scientists must learn how to better communicate risk and…
Our Smart Technologies Will Increasingly Report Us To Law Enforcement
The Thought Police are already here and we are the ones paying for the privilege of their monitoring. Read The…
Why Is Addictive Social Media Bad While Addictive Streaming Movie Platforms Are Good?
What is it that makes spending hours surfing social media a behavior to be corrected, while spending hours streaming movies…
Social Media Is Not A Replacement For Professional Polling
Social media platforms, especially Twitter, have become the go-to datasets for the modern organization wishing to understand popular perception about…
Diverging Patterns Of Interaction Around News On Social Media: Insularity And Partisanship During The 2018 Italian Election Campaign
This study examines the intersection of social and mainstream news: The paper considers how social media ecologies are affecting partisan…
WashPost: Democrats Fret Over The Never-Ending Trump Show
The Washington Post notes how television coverage of Trump towers over coverage of the entire Democratic field combined. Read The…
Is 'Big Data' About What We Do With Our Data Not How Much Of It We Have?
How do we define just what precisely counts as ‘big data’ and does it have more to do with what…
The Web At 30 And Its Invisible And Omnipresent Future
As the modern Web celebrated its 30th birthday this year, it is worth thinking about what the next three decades…
Will Future Robocallers Spoof The Voices Of Our Friends And Family?
Could future robocalling scams involve recording our voices to create text-to-speech voices that mimic us so well that they can…
Is 'Governance By Twitter' Destroying Cooperation?
Could the increasing use of short-form social media platforms be destroying the very cooperation and collaboration that is so vital…
Could AI Enable The Idea Of 'Reverse Fact Checking'?
What if we required every social media post to provide external attribution for its claims and used deep learning algorithms…
Could Forcing Thoughtful Civil Discourse Save Social Media From Its Toxicity?
What if we created a new kind of social platform where profanity, sarcasm and emotionally-laden diatribes are all an artifact…
A Visual Web: Would An Instagram Without Text Solve The Web's Toxicity Problem?
Could a visual-first Web in which text is outlawed and communication is exclusively through imagery solve the toxicity problem? Read…
Instagram's Positivity Problem: Do We Actually Need Toxicity To Enjoy The Web?
The most vital question of the modern Web is whether toxicity is not merely a natural tendency of a digital…
Could Google's Duplex Rid Us Of Robocalls?
Perhaps someday in the future our phones will be intelligent enough to hold conversations on our behalves, relegating junk phone…
Could Our Future Personal Digital Assistants Curate Social Media For Us?
Could our personal digital assistants of the future wade through the vast social wasteland on our behalf, tracking down content…
Could AI Navigate Automated Customer Service Phone Trees For Us?
As companies have increasingly turned to automation to replace human call center employees, many have made it almost impossible to…
Could Digital Assistants Be Our Personalized Toxicity Filters For Social Media?
Could our future digital assistants act as personalized toxicity filters for social media, shielding us with custom tailored blockades against…
Could Pollution-Mapping Open AI Give Us Automated Pollution Cleaning Drones?
Perhaps someday in the not too distant future we might see autonomous trash collection drones powered by open source AI…
Is Social Media Really To Blame For Our Toxic Web Or Is It Globalization And Will Community Fix It?
Is globalization and the loss of community truly at the core of the Web's increasing toxicity and will the return…
Would Replacing Anonymity With A Single Universal Social Media ID Fix The Web's Toxicity?
Would a single shared universal social media identity solve online toxicity by restoring the coercive power of identity? Or would…
Is It Actually Possible To Solve Online Toxicity?
Social platforms must move beyond their current focus on limited quick fixes to overt hate speech towards solutions that address…