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…
Could Limiting Social Media To 'Happy' Posts Fix Online Toxicity?
Artificially forcing social media to become a “happy” caricature of society would likely merely reinforce society’s divides, but how can…
Washington Monthly: Have Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg Mastered the Moment?
Washington Monthly offers its take on the Democratic race, citing the New York Times's media numbers from the Television Explorer….
New York Times: How Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren Cracked the Code of the 2020 Race
The New York Times uses data from the TV Explorer to examine who's who in the Democratic race. Read The…
CNN Focuses on Trump's Health, But Says Biden's Is Off-Limits
Earlier this week CNN took aim at Fox News for raising “baseless” questions about Joe Biden’s health, arguing that such…
Do We Need 'Data Critics' Like We Have Food And Movie Critics?
Could a new role of “data critic” emerge in the enterprise to help evaluate and advise data scientists on the…
Using Open Source AI To Map Global Pollution Through Imagery
A new open source AI trash mapping system from the Let’s Do It Foundation and SIFR in partnership with Microsoft…