Every ‘like’ counts? Facebook as an arena of everyday politics
Critical Review of “A Pool of Dreams: Facebook, Politics and the Emergence of a Social Movement” Crivellaro et al.’s paper [1] analyses …
Should Digital information have a use by date?
Oliver L. Haimson et. al the author of this week’s paper “Digital Footprints and Changing Networks During Online Identity Transitions” strikes the …
The Faces Behind the Interface: Putting the Human back into Human Computation through Turkopticon
This week’s paper “Turkopticon: interrupting Worker Invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk” by Irani and Silberman (2013) takes on the retail giants Amazon, …
Pregnant Pause: How the way you tweet (or don’t) gives you away
Our engagement with social networks is quite commonly seen to be the chief marker of this age, an age where even the …
Amazon Mechanical Turk: Digital sweatshop or second-job safety net?
Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is an online marketplace that allows companies and developers (“Requesters”) to outsource “microtasks” to humans in the form …
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Starbird and Palen’s 2012 paper [1] discusses the role that users of Twitter played during the 2011 Egyptian political uprisings. The …
Health Vlogs silently changing lives
This week’s paper Health Vlogger-Viewer Interaction in Chronic Illness Management, was very interesting and touching. The authors Liu et al. conducted a …
Debating poverty porn on Twitter: Benefits Tweet
In [1] Brooker et al. try to unpick how the social media platform Twitter can provide support for a ‘talkative electorate’ by …
Live Streaming Through the Periscope
Tang, Venolia & Inkpen (2016) perform an analysis of the emerging applications ‘Periscope’ and ‘Meerkat, now recently shutdown’. These are increasingly popular …
“I didn’t want everybody on Facebook knowing that my butt muscle hurt today”: The joys of oversharing about health online
“It’s not that I don’t have problems, I’m just not putting them on Facebook”: Challenges and Opportunities in Using Online Social Networks …