The Social-Media Panic
At the macro level, mass broadcast media was a boon to the Left and center-Left. It allowed a new class of people to shape public opinion as never before. But the appearance of social media represented the return of the repressed. It allowed common conservatives and populists to broadcast their …
Using Social Media to Max Out a Trade Show
Many major shows are included in Inventors Digest's 2018 list, which was published in last month's issue and is also on our website. These days, the widespread use of social media can make your trade show experience even more lucrative—if you know how to use it the right way. Here …
Company building FIU bridge deletes social media accounts
MIAMI – The company responsible for construction of the pedestrian bridge that collapsed just off the Florida International University campus has gone dark on social media. The Facebook and Twitter sites for Munilla Construction Management (MCM) have been deleted, although the company's website … Read More
Social media stunts damaging public trust in politics, says internet expert
It imitated social media branding used by the WA Liberal Party, and is the latest in a series of incidents which is eroding public trust in politics, according to social media expert Tama Leaver at Curtin University. Dr Leaver said the ongoing fallout from the 2016 US presidential election had …
Jim Carrey’s potshot at Sarah Huckabee Sanders fires up social media
Jim Carrey and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (Domenico Stinellis / Associated Press, left; Evan Vucci / Associated Press, right). Jim Carrey, who hasn't been shy about his political opinions on social media since taking a step back from the entertainment industry, found himself in hot water among … Read More
Government to study Germany’s ‘Facebook law’ as social media crackdown looms
A minister has raised the prospect of multi-million pound fines for social media companies that fail to police their sites, revealing that the Government is carefully studying a German law that punishes firms that fail to delete online abuse. Margot James, the minister for digital and the creative industries, … Read …
Meltwater has acquired DataSift to double down on social media analytics
In a week when all eyes are on Facebook and the subject of how data about us on social media platforms gets used without us knowing, there's been some consolidation afoot in the world of media-based big data services. DataSift, the London-based company that pulls data from conversations across … Read …
2018 elections: Of fake news & social media
The following events, which saw the removal of the then president Robert Mugabe from office, were largely followed on social media, albeit with several cases of fake information being circulated. What, however, cannot be taken away from the November 2017, is how the use of the internet and social … Read …
Why Cambridge Analytica means it’s time for an Apple social network
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair, in which people's personal data was allegedly used for purposes it should not have been used for, shows the danger of surveillance capitalism and the need for a new approach to social networking — and that's what Apple can provide. Read More
Row over the use of social media data shows how naive the establishment is about the new …
In 2004, a young student at Harvard called Mark was chatting online to a friend about his new website. A mildly abbreviated transcript reads as follows: Mark: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses. Friend: What? How'd you manage …