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Emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. Emotional contagion is well established in laboratory experiments, with people […]
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Personal data has become a new source of economic value. Once processed and classified they provide relevant information for companies about people’s interests and activities, which is extremely useful for […]
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Google’s reputation was marred in 2010 when it found itself in the middle of what has been called the “Wi-Spy” incident. Google’s Street View service gathered street-level imagery visible to […]
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Numerous websites have implemented the Facebook Like button to let Facebook members share their interests, therewith promoting websites or news items. It is, thus, an important business tool for content […]
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Private online platforms have an increasingly essential role in free speech and participation in democratic culture. But while it might appear that any internet user can publish freely and instantly […]
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Researchers studying Internet activism have disagreed over the extent to which Internet usage alters the processes driving collective action, and therefore also over the utility of existing social movement theory. […]
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The United States Government and Department of Defense (DoD) placed more priority on influence operations from WWII through the Cold War. It appears the US Government has forgotten historical lessons […]
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Fifty million posts full of falsehoods about the coronavirus were disseminated on Facebook in April. And 2.5 million ads for face masks, COVID-19 test kits, and other coronavirus products tried […]
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Imagine that we had carefully established the rules of engagement for the Internet in its earliest days around the time of its birth in 1969. What would those rules have […]
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Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it.
