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BackchannelD&S researcher danah boyd discusses the problem with asking companies like Facebook and Google to 'solve' fake news - boyd insists the context of complex social problems are missing in this problematic solutionism of solvin... Read on BackchannelMarch 2017 -
report
Knight FoundationD&S researchers Mary Madden, Amanda Lenhart, and Claire Fontaine explore youth news consumption behavior on mobile and social media. It reveals how young people are adapting to a changing media environment to access news they trust Read moreMarch 2017 -
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Data & SocietyJennifer Pan presents How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument. The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2,000,0... Read moreFebruary 2017 -
blog post
Pointsdanah boyd responds to criticism of her essays, "Did Media Literacy Backfire?" and "Hacking the Attention Economy." Read on PointsFebruary 2017 -
blog post
Zephoria.orgD&S founder danah boyd responds to remarks by the Trump administration stating that their opposition is the media. And now many of the actors most set on undermining institutionalized information intermediaries are in the ... Read on Zephoria.orgJanuary 2017 -
op-ed
Deutsche WelleD&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman writes about fake news and the bigger problem behind fake news. The truly disturbing truth is that fake news isn't the cause of our contemporary political dysfunction. More troublingly, we live ... Read on Deutsche WelleJanuary 2017 -
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MediumD&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman provides a transcript on his recent speech about journalism and civics. One final thing: we have this tendency in journalism right now to feel very sorry for ourselves. This is a field that we a... Read on MediumJanuary 2017 -
blog post
PointsD&S founder danah boyd begins to sketch out how hacking culture evolved from playful efforts to game the media ecosystem to more complex and politicized projects of social engineering, propaganda, and activism in "Hacking t... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsData & Society releases six new essays on the networked public sphere written by danah boyd, Robyn Caplan, Caroline Jack, and Alice Marwick. Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsIn “How do you deal with a problem like ‘fake news?’” D&S researcher Robyn Caplan weighs in on the potential — and pitfalls — of efforts to curb Facebook’s fake news problem. Read on PointsJanuary 2017