Pre-pandemic, Canadians’ love affair with social media shows no signs of slowing. But after living through two years of COVID-19…
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How a private message gets you sent to prison | Prospect Magazine
by Ethan Zuckerman
6 days ago
Jessica Burgess sent her teenage daughter Celeste a message on Facebook in April 2022: “Hey we can get the show…
Job Opportunity: Post-Doc Research Associate | UNC – Chapel Hill
by UNC Chapel Hill - School of Information & Library Sciences
September 16, 2022
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) seeks to advance the profession and practice of librarianship and information science,…
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World | Data & Society
by Sareeta Amrute, Ranjit Singh, and Rigoberto Lara Guzmán
September 15, 2022
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as…
Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch
by Taylor Hatmaker
September 15, 2022
Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms…
Disinformation via text message is a problem with few answers | NBC News
by Kevin Collier
September 15, 2022
The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out…
Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature | MediaWell
by Catherine Weddig
September 15, 2022
Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability to…
Doxxed, threatened, and arrested: Russia’s war on Wikipedia editors | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Masha Borak
September 13, 2022
One Friday in March, not long after Russia invaded Ukraine, Mikhail, a Russia-based Wikipedia editor, opened the Telegram app to…
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor Of Organizational Communication | University of Kentucky
by University of Kentucky
September 13, 2022
The Department of Communication in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a…
The FTC May (Finally) Protect Americans From Data Brokers | WIRED
by Justin Sherman
September 6, 2022
On August 29, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had filed a landmark lawsuit against data broker Kochava for “selling…