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Rise of foreign-born presidents of US universities is a reflection of the goal many US universities have in providing a cosmopolitan view of the world, as well as the rise of international scholars at US institutions.
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Al Jazeera's Twitter dashboard, tracking tweets regarding protests/revolts in Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain. An interesting high-level view – wish drilling down were easier
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More thorough piece on Dunbar's number and social media, including concessions from Dunbar that it's possible to increase your friendship capacity via artificial means – memory aides, etc.Â
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Useful gloss on Dunbar's number and implications for social networking sites.
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Extremely smart paper from Tony Olcott, which asks hard questions about the "Attention as currency" metaphor and measures the somewhat dismal state of tools for understanding the flows and dynamics of attention in contemporary media ecosystems.Â
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Intriguing article on information and political polarization. Well educated folks on the left firmly convinced that global warming is real, well educated folks on the right firmly unconvinced… level of certainty appears to correlate to education, but political preference determines whether you're convinced climate change is real or not. Fascinating finding, very disturbing in terms of echo chamber effects, possibility of increasing civility in discourse through increased information.