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“The Department of Communication and Media at Liverpool wishes to appoint a progressive and forward-thinking Chair in the context of an international and collaborative University. You will be an excellent […]
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“Theorizing the Web is an inter- and non-disciplinary annual conference that brings together scholars, journalists, artists, activists, and technology practitioners to think conceptually and critically about the interrelationships between the […]
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Facebook has promised to use artificial intelligence to stop suggesting users invite their dead friends to parties. The site’s freshly emotionally intelligent AI is part of a rash of changes […]
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“We, Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu, are looking to hire an outstanding and motivated full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow. The position will be based at Stanford. The position will last for […]
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Facing criticism over the videos it recommends to users, YouTube seems to have a new favorite talking point, one that might surprise anyone who has spent time online: Extreme content, […]
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Global communications technology has streamlined the power of suggestion. Behind every Facebook ad, Twitter feed, and YouTube recommendation is an algorithm that’s designed to keep users using: It tracks preferences […]
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On an otherwise ordinary Sunday in late January, a 32-year-old web editor for a chain of local radio stations in Central Texas ran across a news item that he found […]
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A book that pushes the conspiracy theory Qanon climbed within the top 75 of all books sold on Amazon in recent days, pushed by Amazon’s algorithmically generated recommendations page. “QAnon: […]
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Opinion: Social media platforms not only host troubling images of suicide and self-harm, they end up recommending it to the people most vulnerable to it.
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Article Topper: Horizontal Here’s some breaking fake news … Russia has declared war on the United States after Donald Trump accidentally fired a missile in the air. […] That story […]
