Ethan

I got an interesting email from a young Nigerian today alerting me to the problem of social shaming and microlending. He wanted me to promote… Read More »Microfinance and public shaming in Nigeria

What content is popular on Facebook? This is a surprisingly difficult – and very important – question to answer. Facebook is the most popular social… Read More »I read Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report. It’s really strange.

A few years ago, friends involved with the Media Cloud project – notably Fernando Bermejo, Hal Roberts, Rahul Bhargava – and I began talking about… Read More »Why Study Media Ecosystems?

Amy and I had about as gentle a pandemic as one could have. No one in our immediate family contracted COVID, we both were able… Read More »Recommendations from the road

I got the good news today that I have been granted tenure at the University of Massachusetts. This is very good news, as the tenure… Read More »A milestone I never expected

Today is the anniversary of the day I started paying attention to the coronavirus pandemic in earnest. We’re about to see a wave of these… Read More »The Year of Going Nowhere