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Democracy and Psychopathology on Facebook and Google+

Saturday, July 9, 2011

The differences between Facebook and Google+ may reflect deeper aspects of our society than seem apparent at first, from how we live the principles of democracy to which sharing model works best for psychopathic behavior.

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Who’s in the Driver’s Seat, Social Media or People?

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Over on Flip the Media, the blog of the MCDM program, a new poll asks two questions: Did social media tools like Twitter and Facebook drive the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions? Could social media tools like Twitter and Facebook spur widespread demonstrations in the US or UK? I find it hard to answer these questions [...]

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False Assumptions in the Global Village Square

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The fallout of the Iranian elections was a Twitter moment for me. As protestors took to the streets of Tehran, clashing with Basij on motorcycles, I followed the #iranelection hashtag. After a young woman’s death from a sniper’s bullet was seen around the world, her name became another search column I kept open in TweetDeck, [...]

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