Pew research: Tech experts believe social media is harming democracy from r/technology
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/21/many-tech-experts-say-digital-disruption-will-hurt-democracy/
The years of almost unfettered enthusiasm about the benefits of the internet have been followed by a period of techlash as users worry about the actors who exploit the speed, reach and complexity of the internet for harmful purposes. Over the past four years – a time of the Brexit decision in the United Kingdom, the American presidential election and a variety of other elections – the digital disruption of democracy has been a leading concern.
Some think the information and trust environment will worsen by 2030 thanks to the rise of video deepfakes, cheapfakes and other misinformation tactics.
Power Imbalance: Democracy is at risk because those with power will seek to maintain it by building systems that serve them not the masses. Too few in the general public possess enough knowledge to resist this assertion of power.
EXPLOITING DIGITAL ILLITERACY
danah boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research and founder of Data & Society, wrote, “The problem is that technology mirrors and magnifies the good, bad AND ugly in everyday life. And right now, we do not have the safeguards, security or policies in place to prevent manipulators from doing significant harm with the technologies designed to connect people and help spread information.”
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more on social media in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media
Leaked documents show how police used social media and private Slack channels to track George Floyd protesters from r/technology
https://www.businessinsider.com/blueleaks-how-cops-tracked-george-floyd-protesters-on-social-media-2020-6
Police monitored RSVP lists on Facebook events, shared information about Slack channels protesters were using, and cited protesters’ posts in encrypted messaging apps like Telegram.
How police used social media to track protesters
warning sent to police departments on June 6, the FBI says it’s been tracking “individuals using Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram” who post about organizing protests.
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more on surveillance in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=surveillance
Facebook Has Been Profiting From Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War And Unrest from r/technology
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-instagram-profit-boogaloo-ads
Derived from the name of a 1984 movie, the term “Boogaloo” covers a range of extremists, including some believed to be violent.
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more on Facebook in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=facebook
Alternatives to YouTube for educational use in this Online Community thread:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/606674969963205/
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more on YouTube for ed use in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=youtube+education
The Endgame for LinkedIn Is Coming
Jack of all trades. LinkedIn had — and still has — multiple branded apps: Job Search, SlideShare, Learning, Recruiter, Sales Navigator and something call ‘Elevate”
Bad at integration and scaling. LinkedIn acquired many companies to introduce various services, but wasn’t so good at making them work.
Ads were expensive and user-unfriendly. Natalie Halimi, a marketer with 10 years of experience, wrote about LinkedIn ads back in July 2014. She used the headers “high CPC, poor dashboard, poor analysis” and concluded “ LinkedIn need to reassess their pricing strategy to provide better ROI for advertisers”.
Overvalued, full stop. Just before the plunge, LinkedIn shares were trading at 50x forward earnings. Twitter was at 30x, Facebook 34x and Google 21x. It was one of the most expensive stocks in tech.
When Microsoft introduced Office 365, it was to battle Google’s G Suite which appealed to smaller businesses with its cheaper pricing and cloud-based subscription model.
It is succeeding. According to a 2018 Bitglass survey, Office 365’s global market share has gone up to 56.3% from 7.7% in just four years. G Suite has stayed at about 25% since 2016.
LinkedIn’s employees were actually using G suite — the whole bag: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Hangouts, Docs, Sheets… — before the Microsoft acquisition.
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more on LinkedIn in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=linkedin
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020
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https://ictessh.uns.ac.rs/
- a three-day virtual conference,
- free to attend,
- the attractive topic and nice program with 17 papers presentations and a panel discussion,
- 2 workshops and 1 training,
- an ICT quiz with 500 euros prize award for the winner,
Dates of the conference: June 29th – July 1st, 2020
Jeff Clovins, Clavirate Analytics
Wednesday, June 1
Challenges to Social Sciences and Humanities
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231020178_Migration_and_Diaspora_in_the_Age_of_Information_and_Communication_Technologies
Best practices: Two Web-browser-based methods for stimuluspresentation in behavioral experiments with high-resolution timingrequirementsPablo Garaizar1&Ulf-Dietrich
(PDF) Best practices: Two Web-browser-based methods for stimulus presentation in behavioral experiments with high-resolution timing requirements. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328012311_Best_practices_Two_Web-browser-based_methods_for_stimulus_presentation_in_behavioral_experiments_with_high-resolution_timing_requirements [accessed Jul 01 2020].
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/together-apart/book275359
