By Ted Kritsonis
More than just a brewing controversy, Facebook is mired in a developing scandal that casts a bright spotlight on how precarious privacy and personal data truly are on the world’s largest social network.
by Lee Rickwood
The type of information someone might want to be de-indexed or taken down is well, rather broad: from social ratings sites and revenge porn postings to arrest citations and mugshots to nasty reports about our teachers or our shopping experiences by disgruntled consumers or students.
by Lee Rickwood
We may be our own last line of defence against fake news and purposeful social manipulation. That puts our media literacy, cognitive skills and critical thinking abilities to a real test. Severely tested, too, will be our economic skills and abilities. Fake news is cheap; real information and investigative journalism is expensive.
by Lee Rickwood
Content that fits expectations and existing worldviews will be shared more often than content that challenges or undermines existing prejudices and preconceptions.
By Lee Rickwood
A new global social media art project launches today, August 1, 2015, and a unique new music video has been tossed to the Web to herald the #RippleEffect
by Lee Rickwood
What if your friend turned out to be a real materialist, ‘only in it for the money’? What if they were constantly pushing you to buy things you may or may not want or even like? Would you still hang out?
by Lee Rickwood
Toronto should be the perfect city for it – after all, we have the most Facebook members, right?
But can social media cure political apathy? A newly-launched website is designed to do just that, and it’s called VO4TO. Say it fast and often enough, it sounds like a road to Rome.