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