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The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a “liberation technology” is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitrioli…
Sahana Udupa is a professor of media anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany, where she researches and teaches online extreme speech, politics of artificial intelligence, global digital media, […]
Networked gatekeepers on social media increasingly influence which people and groups receive media attention. Many unknowingly direct much greater attention to men than to women. Can technologies support these gatekeepers […]
As online platforms monitor and intervene in the daily lives of billions of people, platforms are being used to govern enduring social problems. Field experiments could inform wise uses of […]
Media coverage of deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police sharply increased after the high-profile death of Michael Brown. We analyze a novel set of media […]
Theories of human behavior suggest that people’s decisions to join a group and their subsequent behavior are influenced by perceptions of what is socially normative. In online discussions, where unruly, […]
J. Nathan Matias organizes citizen behavioral science for a safer, fairer, more understanding internet. A Guatemalan American, Matias is an assistant professor in Cornell University’s Department of Communication. He is […]
The next frontier in gender rights is inside databases.
In-person final exams were canceled for thousands of students this spring, so computers stepped in — to disastrous effect.
After some initial fascination with the concept, there now appears to be more skepticism than support for the idea that tools like Twitter and Facebook are