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PointsIn “Did Media Literacy Backfire?” D&S founder danah boyd argues that the thorny problems of fake news and the spread of conspiracy theories have, in part, origins in efforts to educate people against misinformation. At the ... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsIn “What’s Propaganda Got To Do With It?” Caroline Jack notes a resurgence in the popularity of “propaganda” as a judgment-laden label for a vast array of media ranging from fringe conspiracy theories to establishment news inst... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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Globalvoices.orgD&S fellow Zara Rahman donates part of her Shuttleworth Flash Grant to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and Global Voices. So here's the thing: I don't think we need only innovative ideas or world-changing projects. We... Read on Globalvoices.orgDecember 2016 -
op-ed
CNND&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman wrote an op-ed detailing the issue of normalizing the abnormal. My deep fear is that there's no single set of Hallin's spheres anymore. What's consensus to a Trump supporter may be deviant to a ... Read on CNNNovember 2016 -
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PointsD&S founder danah boyd opines on the usefulness of election polls and calls for the cessation of these polls. It’s now time for the media to put a moratorium on reporting on election polls and fancy visualizations of stati... Read on PointsNovember 2016 -
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PointsD&S founder danah boyd asserts that the media must be held accountable in producing and disseminating information. "We live in a world shaped by fear and hype, not because it has to be that way, but because this is the o... Read on PointsNovember 2016 -
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MediumD&S founder danah boyd critiques traditional media's response to the September 17th bombings in NYC. Traditional news media has a lot of say in what it publishes. This is one of the major things that distinguishes it from ... Read on MediumSeptember 2016 -
Academic Article
SSRNWhen Media Companies Insist They’re Not Media Companies and Why It Matters for Communications PolicyD&S researcher Robyn Caplan co-wrote a paper analyzing how many large well-known companies, such as Buzzfeed and Facebook, argue against being categorized as media companies. However, Caplan and co-writer Philip M. Napoli a... Read on SSRNAugust 2016 -
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MediumAnil Dash wrote a piece describing the evolution of blogs. He compares past and current capabilities of features, such as searches, comments, and following. He concludes with: Ultimately, though, I think most of these ideas we... Read on MediumAugust 2016 -
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PointsWhat the journalists from SourceFed may have stumbled upon was not an instance in which search results were intentionally being manipulated in favor of a candidate, but how algorithms can reflect complex jurisdictional issues a... Read on PointsJune 2016