Exploring the Chinese internet with WeiboScope
Scholars of social media spend a lot of time studying Twitter. Twitter’s not the largest social network in the world – Facebook has at least… Read More »Exploring the Chinese internet with WeiboScope
Usury, the Sioux and the race car driver
It’s a few days after Christmas, and if you overextended yourself in buying gifts for your family and friends, you may be thinking about options… Read More »Usury, the Sioux and the race car driver
John Kelly, Morningside Analytics on the fact checking ecosystem
John Kelly, chief scientist of Morningside Analytics, makes pretty diagrams that feature multicolored dots. The pretty dots frequently tell complicated and subtle stories about the… Read More »John Kelly, Morningside Analytics on the fact checking ecosystem
Lucas Graves on the rise of fact checking
Lucas Graves, a doctoral student at Columbia and a research fellow at the New America Foundation, frames a discussion on fact checking by offering a… Read More »Lucas Graves on the rise of fact checking
Welcoming (?) Al-Shabaab to Twitter
Somedays it seems that everyone has joined Twitter. And then a new account comes along and raises interesting questions about what the service is for… Read More »Welcoming (?) Al-Shabaab to Twitter
Ziriums and Zeb Ejiro – Can cultural creation hold Nigeria together?
I’m traveling too much this fall, not getting enough time with my family or my students, but there are occasional trips that would simply be… Read More »Ziriums and Zeb Ejiro – Can cultural creation hold Nigeria together?