Internet history, web culture, and the politics of technology
I spoke to Slate reporter Will Oremus on the double-sided coin that is the modern web for a feature about how referral traffic from Facebook has tanked for many web publishers (including, sadly, Slate): For every five people that Facebook used to send to Slate about a year ago, it now sends less than one.… Continue reading Slate on Facebook’s “retreat” from news
"It allowed us to move into the hearts and minds of American voters in a way that had never been done before."
Facebook is still trying to do something about stopping misinformation from going viral on their platform.
Demand isn't necessarily correlated or even triggered by supply, but we don't have any studies about demand in fake news.
I wanted to run a test in my Facebook feed based on claims I heard that using certain phrases denoting personal news or big changes (like engagements or babies or new jobs) would bump up posts to the top of the feed. Facebook, basically: pic.twitter.com/cHTJsa0WKk — Yuri Victor ♥ (@yurivictor) September 5, 2014 It turns out,… Continue reading The day I broke Facebook
Twitter is the headquarters of the control freak. It's a social network for those who want everlasting control over what they see and from whom they see it. It's the social network for those who want to bless people by following their digital auras, depending on if they prefer ethos (power Twitter), pathos (animal pictures / rage Twitter), or… Continue reading You’re not my favorite: Twitter experiments with infiltrating your feed
In my first two posts about sharing media, I covered the reasons why we use social media to share information. The first part of These tiny Gutenbergs reviewed sharing information as a critical expression of free speech. The second part focused on the world of Twitter and why we retweet. In this third post, I thought… Continue reading These tiny Gutenbergs (Part three)
Margarita Noriega 