Facebook has come under fire before for manipulating the newsfeeds of its users without their knowledge, and now a Mother Jones report says the social network’s experiments may have significantly affected… Read more »
Twitter is funding a new research project at MIT called the Laboratory for Social Machines, giving the lab $10 million over five years and access to both the real-time firehose of… Read more »
The news is no longer contained in an object we can hold, but flows around us through a variety of apps and services, and the design or algorithmic choices those platforms… Read more »
Three online communities have formed a partnership called DERP, aimed at helping academic researchers get access to data about their users — data that will be ethically acquired and open-sourced, the… Read more »
Facebook is constantly experimenting on its users by tweaking the newsfeed in both large and small ways, a former member of the company’s data science team confirms, and some of the… Read more »
A study manipulated the news feeds of hundreds of thousands of Facebook users in an attempt to show that emotional responses can be affected by the behavior of our social connections,… Read more »
Many traditional news outlets are happy to have “user-generated content” or citizen journalism for their breaking news reports, a Tow Center study finds — but most do a poor job of… Read more »
After a frenzy of media attention focused on a global social-networking study that said Facebook was “dead and buried” for younger users, the study’s author qualifies his comments — and takes… Read more »
A group of Harvard researchers who looked at information flows on Twitter during the Boston bombings came to the conclusion the network could be useful during such events for aid workers… Read more »
A study that looked at more than a billion tweets and the geographic connections between 71 million users across the globe shows how Twitter has changed the way we communicate and… Read more »