Infrastructure Influences Everything Digitally Lit #266 – 10/31/2020 Welcome back to Digitally Literate and issue #266. Thanks for showing up this week. I hope you’re taking the time to recharge your batteries. This week I worked on the following: What’s Next? – I was selected as one of the winners of the Divergent Award from…
Tolerating the Noise of Others Digitally Lit #232 – 2/8/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #232 of Digitally Literate. I worked on (and submitted) a manuscript this week for a bit of research on infusing computational thinking into content area instruction. I’ll share more as this moves through the review process. If you haven’t already,…
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A diagram of your social network reveals the strength of your individual relationships, network scientists say.
Research contextualized in the MIT Technology Review: Social scientists measure the strength of these links using a variety of indicators, such as how often a person calls another, whether that call is reciprocated, the time the two people spend speaking, and so on. But these indicators are often difficult and time-consuming to measure. ➡ The…
The trend of someone leaving your life, but still appearing in your online world, can hinder the ability to heal.
A piece on “orbiting” or a “strategic way to prevent the door from shutting completely on a former relationship.” I didn’t know what to call it at the time, but in a recent piece for Man Repeller, writer Anna Lovine used the term “orbiting” to describe when a person leaves your life but still appears in…
The company finally lifted the curtain on what kind of content it boots from its platform.
Once again Facebook makes an announcement about how they’re protecting users and their data. Yet, we have to continue to question their priorities…and transparency in the model. Facebook removes tons of content from its platform for violating its rules, but it generally doesn’t reveal much about that content’s nature or quantity. On Tuesday, however, the…
Another day, another stop on Facebook's never-ending apology tour.
Another day, another stop on Facebook’s never-ending apology tour. On Tuesday, that takes the form of the social network’s latest transparency report, which, for the first time, includes stats on the vast amounts of content the company removes for violating its community standards. This content is a tiny fraction of the total content Facebook removes every…
The quantity of human interactions has increased, but the quality is arguably diminished.
More examination and reflection of the role and substance of social media connections in society. But in 2011, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania headed by Keith N. Hampton found evidence that “close social relations do not attrite with internet use and that internet users tend to have larger personal networks,” and that social…
Arwa Mahdawi in The Guardian brings us to a close by asking the question that has been on everyone’s lips all week. Are the Cambridge Analytica revelations the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network? And, this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information.…
This post from Andrew Keene Woods on the Lawfare blog is a great legal primer on the moving parts of the debacle. Woods indicates that this was not a ‘breach’ of data, but it was a breach of trust. Several key takeaways from this piece by Woods: [Aleksandr] Kogan did not need to get Facebook data through the back door.…