The term “social network” has become commonplace, but those who use it to designate Facebook or Instagram often ignore its origin and true meaning.
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The low share of women revealed in this data is problematic for two reasons: a lack of diversity, and what it shows about women’s participation in the social network of informal collaboration.
Social media apps are becoming as important as water, food and batteries when communities face natural disasters. One key function is helping people connect with neighbors and support each other.
Facebook’s new video platform, Watch, suggests the social platform may have given up on copying Snapchat.
If children and teenagers are comfortable with social media, we should use it as a means to reach them and ensure they understand the do’s and dont’s.
Our research shows we keep going back to social media even when it infuriates us.
In the wake of the suicide bombing in Manchester, England, an expert on social networks explains why ties to other people help societies recover from traumatic events.
Comments like ‘little girl needs to keep to herself before daddy breaks her face’ get a free pass in the name of free speech.
Text and video ‘mining’ could be used to automatically detect violent language and behaviour.
As companies strive to take advantage of the selfie phenomenon, they’re also realizing that consumers’ self-portraits constitute a whole new form of brand co-creation.
Along with machine learning, data mining and statistics, visualisations are playing an important role in current-day data analytics.
Simply copying Snapchat might not be enough to keep the biggest social network relevant.
Incidents that may have been mere hiccups a few years ago today can go viral in an instant, causing a massive backlash and leaving some of the biggest companies wrong-footed.
Artificial intelligence is surrounded by fear and mystery because very few understand its inner workings. But it’s actually rather intuitive and far simpler than it seems.
Disaster preparations often focus on gear and logistics, but research in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami shows that strong social ties played a key role in helping communities rebound.
After witnessing a streamed suicide, users could sue for emotional harm. But it’s tricky to prove – and even trickier to hold Facebook accountable.
Social networks built on blockchain technology, such as Steemit, promise a far more democratic experience.
The defining characteristics of our species will make us and our labour relevant in a new era.
The scientific impact of a research paper increases with every additional commenter who provides feedback – particularly if the comment came from a well-connected academic.
College is a time for friendships. But how can students best leverage the power of those friendships? First, by learning how those networks work.
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Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director, Security and Resilience Program, Northeastern University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professeur en marketing, EM Lyon Business School
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Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Digital Sociologist, Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po
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Associate Professor, UCT School of Economics; South African Reserve Bank Research Chair in Financial Stability Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Experimental Psycology, University of Oxford
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Canada Research Chair in Social Enterprise
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