A teenager’s perspective on how he uses different social networks is useful, but sociologist danah boyd warns that generalizing about what this means for all teenagers inevitably marginalizes some users who… Read more »
Two of the authors of the original Cluetrain Manifesto from 1999 have come out with an update that says many of the risks and potential dangers facing the internet come from… Read more »
A description from 19-year-old Andrew Watts provides a fascinating glimpse into how some teenaged users approach different social-media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat Read more »
There are plenty of things that are bad about being connected to the internet and the social web all the time, but there are far more good things about it, including… Read more »
The way the story around Uber’s behavior has emerged is another example of how much the media landscape has changed over the past couple of years, with CEOs and VCs tweeting… Read more »
Reuters says the conversation about news content has moved to social platforms like Twitter and Facebook, so it is removing the ability for readers to comment on its stories — but… Read more »
BuzzFeed has formed a partnership with Facebook that gives it access to the social network’s “sentiment analysis” data on millions of users — but Facebook’s algorithm is going to influence the… Read more »
When it comes to breaking news events, many people are willing to overlook the fact that some of the reports they are getting might not be verified or 100-percent accurate, in… Read more »
Disqus, one of the largest comment-hosting platforms on the web, is launching a feature that could add sponsored comments to the sites of many leading publishers — but that seems unlikely… Read more »
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 »