Sean Cubitt asserts the value of anecdotal evidence against the rise of statistics, but at the same time wants to confront the difficulties in bringing about an encounter between readers (human or otherwise) and the mass image constructed by social media and search giants.
Everything is Awful: Snark as Ritualized Social Practice in Online Discourse
Snark can adopt a pro-social role in online environments whose architecture tends to reward vapid or deceptive content.
Podcast: Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign”
Syracuse University’s Jennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large scale collection and machine learning techniques she and her team have used for the Illuminating 2016 project to study the ways the presidential candidates and the public have used social media.
Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign
Jennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large-scale collection and machine learning techniques used to study how presidential candidates use social media.
Podcast: Kevin Driscoll, “Re-Calling The Modem World: The Dial-Up History Of Social Media”
“While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.”
Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
Kevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
Podcast: “Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement” – Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Latest Book Release
As part of his book launch, Sasha Costanza-Chock shares some of his prior experiences working as both an activist and a researcher of social movements.
