Algorithms may now be our most important knowledge technologies, “the scientific instruments of a society at large,” and they are increasingly vital to how we organize human social interaction, produce authoritative knowledge, ... Read more

With the rise of online learning environments, student records are no longer just basic academic and administrative information, but include data and metadata generated from student interaction with digital platforms as well as... Read more

Political actors around the world are beginning to use social bots—automated software programs designed to interact with and imitate human users–to manipulate public opinion. Social bots have been used across numerous online pl... Read more

Online harassment isn’t a new plight or issue within social media, but what is new is the study and focus on online harassment. New verbiage, vocabulary, and offline initiatives have been created to focus on and provide support... Read more

The public interest concept has traditionally been a central, multi-faceted, and highly contested guiding principle in the governance of media platforms that have played a significant role in the dissemination of news and infor... Read more

Vanessa Kitzie and Debanjan Ghosh of Rutgers University present their research exploring black and white experiences of criminal justice, and how these experiences are narrated on social media. On December 3, 2014, after a g... Read more

Access is an international organization that extends and defends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. In this Databite, Peter Micek and Deji Olukotun examine the increasing trend of Internet shutdowns worldwide... Read more

"Some social media companies—including Facebook—have run experiments to learn what influences user behavior. Many of these experiments have troubled both social media users and privacy advocates, who worry that this research an... Read on PBS