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Facebook tracks your activity online to identify your interests, but doesn't take context into account. That can result in some odd targeted ads.

A new search engine developed by a Qatar Foundation entity, makes it easier to get official statements of all member states of the United Nations (UN)

A new search engine developed by a Qatar Foundation entity, makes it easier to get official statements of all member states of the United Nations (UN)

IMAGE CAPTION: Shamika Klassen, a PhD candidate in the Department of Information Science, says social media platforms like Black Twitter can be a key

Computational Social Scientists at Stony Brook University Find Evidence Americans Identify with Their Politics More than their Religion News provided by Share this article Share this article STONY BROOK, N.Y., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In new research to be published in the March issue of the Journal of Social Computing, researchers Nick Rogers and Dr. Jason J. Jones present evidence that politics is overtaking religion within the American psyche. The prevalence of users whose profile bio ...

Getty Images / WIRED With US president Donald Trump booted from Twitter and conservative-friendly social network Parler taken off the internet by Amazon Web Services, the internet’s far-right has become digitally homeless. Or not. Telegram, the privacy-first messaging app founded and led by Russian exile Pavel Durov, seems poised to give those people a new home. According to data analytics company Sensor Tower, by Sunday the app had become the second-most downloaded in the US. On January ...

December 21, 2020 What makes people good at having conversations? In a recent paper, Cornell researchers explored conversations on a crisis text service in order to figure out how to answer that question. “The problem we always came up with was that we never knew if the things we observed were correlations, or if they could actually provide useful information to inform how the platform assigns counselors,” said Justine Zhang, doctoral student in information science and first author of “Qu...