Chief Twit, Elon Musk, signals interest in reviving Vine
New Twitter owner Elon Musk has signalled a potential interest in reviving Vine, the social video app Twitter gave up on six years ago.
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New Twitter owner Elon Musk has signalled a potential interest in reviving Vine, the social video app Twitter gave up on six years ago.
Not only are billions of people around the world glued to their mobile phones, but the information they consume has changed dramatically – and not for the ..
Not only are billions of people around the world glued to their mobile phones, but the information they consume has changed dramatically -- and not for the better. On dominant social media platforms like Facebook, researchers have documented that falsehoods spread faster and more widely than similar content that includes accurate information. Though users are not demanding misinformation, the algorithms that determine what people see tend to favour sensational, inaccurate and misleading content, because that is what generates "engagement" and thus advertising revenue.
I’ve been teaching stand-alone workshops at the Washington State Univerity Libraries since I arrived way back in 2000. One of these is a workshop I call “Digital Privacy and Security: