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Social Media
Texas Prison System Unveils New Censorship Policy
Supporters of prisoners often use social media to raise attention about prison conditions and the appeal campaigns of individuals.
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How Social Media Policing and Online Vigilantism May Increase Wrongful Convictions
Turning countless people into unofficial, online police informants threatens to increase vigilantism and wrongful convictions.
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Manipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You
Is this paranoia?
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Privacy Talk
How Sharing Your Success Is Perceived as Bragging
We tend to overestimate the extent that others will share in our joy and underestimate the negative reactions this can provoke.
“The Internet Is My Lifeline”: Hip-Hop Artist Jasiri X on the FCC’s Net Neutrality Vote
The political artist from Pittsburgh speaks about the importance of the internet.
How the Sydney Siege Was Reported by the Public and News Professionals
Social media both speeds up the coverage of a story such as this and risks magnifying inaccuracies.
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Twelve Hashtags That Changed the Conversation in 2014
If awareness is useful, then so are hashtags - as long as public interest remains to fuel them.
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This Time, “Free Speech” Cannot Prevail
Although free speech is an important human right, decades of knowledge about the cycle of domestic violence and warning signs of potentially lethal behavior should indeed prompt the Court …
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Revolution Versus the Counterrevolution in the Age of Social Media
Revolutionary organizations probably exist almost everywhere in some form throughout the world. The problem is that they tend to be small, or small relative to other political parties.