Many factors can influence people to evacuate or stay in place when disasters loom. Research using Facebook posts suggests that people with broad social networks are more apt to get moving.
Many factors can influence people to evacuate or stay in place when disasters threaten. New research using Facebook posts suggests that people with broad social networks are more apt to move.
Technology drives fake news. Could it also stop the problem in its tracks?
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We used the latest techniques from artificial intelligence to study how support for or opposition to a piece of fake news can spread within a social network.
Chanel is one of the brands that makes the most of Instagram.
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Instagram is in fashion, literally. Brands use it in a variety of ways, but some still have significant room for growth. And they’re not necessarily the ones you imagine.
Smiling on the outside, struggling on the inside. Networking can be painful.
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Google and Facebook reign supreme over digital advertising. Yet the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and when the effectiveness of this advertising seems limited, should we ban this model?
Privacy on Facebook: how much sharing is too much?
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The ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal has generated big headlines, but consumer and marketing research have long questioned the actual effectiveness of psychographic segmentation.
It seems near impossible to keep control of our personal data – and Facebook does anything but help.
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Today’s communications platforms and the algorithms that power them have led to a radical change in how public discourse is conducted and public opinion formed.
Winemakers call the ecological factors that define their product terroir. By redefining that idea to include history and social ties, New England craft brewers have grown an industry with local roots.
YouTube vlogger Logan Paul posted and then removed a video depicting an apparent suicide victim.
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A robust and enforceable code is needed for online services to design sites and apps in a way that is appropriate for different age groups.
Eighteen survivors battled it out for their chance to claim the million dollar prize in the season finale of Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers. Here, a mathematician uses network science to predict the winner.
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