Russia This Week: Low Turnout for ‘Russian March,’ High Turnout for ‘National Unity Day’ | The Interpreter: Thriving on Forums, Paid Kremlin Trolls Move Into New Offices
The sad life of Putin’s “Troll Army” - http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/11/02/the-sad-life-of-putins-troll-army/
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Be Very Skeptical — A Lot of Your Open-Source Intel Is Fake — War Is Boring — Medium
Be Very Skeptical — A Lot of Your Open-Source Intel Is Fake — War Is Boring — Medium
Governments plant propaganda in social media
Governments plant propaganda in social media
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
The Asia Digital Life Project � An Outsized Role for Social Media in the Indonesian Election
The Asia Digital Life Project - An Outsized Role for Social Media in the Indonesian Election
Of 255 million citizens in Indonesia (which makes it the world’s third largest democracy) there are over 77 million citizens online — and 50 million of those are eligible to vote. There’s a very active social media landscape in Indonesia, and the social media activism community there is particularly vibrant.
Indonesia has one of the largest social media populations in the world. Globally, it’s number four in terms of Facebook users, and number five on Twitter. Jakarta is said to be the busiest Twitter city in the world. Indonesian’s are among the social media users with the most friends. For people there, having more than 1,000 friends on Facebook is not uncommon.
it’s true that social media was important in this election, mainly because of the lack of official information regarding the candidates and the election.
Both candidates also used social media a great deal, but in different ways.
This is the first time a vote in Indonesia has been subjected to this level of transparency. In part, that’s because the governmental election commission published the raw results online.
Of 255 million citizens in Indonesia (which makes it the world’s third largest democracy) there are over 77 million citizens online — and 50 million of those are eligible to vote. There’s a very active social media landscape in Indonesia, and the social media activism community there is particularly vibrant.
Indonesia has one of the largest social media populations in the world. Globally, it’s number four in terms of Facebook users, and number five on Twitter. Jakarta is said to be the busiest Twitter city in the world. Indonesian’s are among the social media users with the most friends. For people there, having more than 1,000 friends on Facebook is not uncommon.
it’s true that social media was important in this election, mainly because of the lack of official information regarding the candidates and the election.
Both candidates also used social media a great deal, but in different ways.
This is the first time a vote in Indonesia has been subjected to this level of transparency. In part, that’s because the governmental election commission published the raw results online.
Monday, September 1, 2014
Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects | MIT Technology Review
Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects | MIT Technology Review
They found for example that face-to-face interactions and the trust people place in one another are strongly correlated with well-being in a positive way. In other words, if you tend to trust people and have lots of face-to-face interactions, you will probably assess your well-being more highly.
But of course interactions on online social networks are not face-to-face and this may impact the trust you have in people online. It is this loss of trust that can then affect subjective well-being rather than the online interaction itself.
Sabatini and Sarracino tease this apart statistically. “We find that online networking plays a positive role in subjective well-being through its impact on physical interactions, whereas [the use of] social network sites is associated with lower social trust,” they say. “The overall effect of networking on individual welfare is significantly negative,” they conclude.
That’s an important result because it is the first time that the role of online networks has been addressed in such a large and nationally representative sample.
Sabatini and Sarracino particularly highlight the role of discrimination and hate speech on social media which they say play a significant role in trust and well-being. Better moderation could significantly improve the well-being of the people who use social networks, they conclude.
They found for example that face-to-face interactions and the trust people place in one another are strongly correlated with well-being in a positive way. In other words, if you tend to trust people and have lots of face-to-face interactions, you will probably assess your well-being more highly.
But of course interactions on online social networks are not face-to-face and this may impact the trust you have in people online. It is this loss of trust that can then affect subjective well-being rather than the online interaction itself.
Sabatini and Sarracino tease this apart statistically. “We find that online networking plays a positive role in subjective well-being through its impact on physical interactions, whereas [the use of] social network sites is associated with lower social trust,” they say. “The overall effect of networking on individual welfare is significantly negative,” they conclude.
That’s an important result because it is the first time that the role of online networks has been addressed in such a large and nationally representative sample.
Sabatini and Sarracino particularly highlight the role of discrimination and hate speech on social media which they say play a significant role in trust and well-being. Better moderation could significantly improve the well-being of the people who use social networks, they conclude.
Friday, August 29, 2014
With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things - NYTimes.com
With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things - NYTimes.com
It is essentially a giant switchboard to connect disparate services, anything from Facebook to text messages to telephone calls. Users can create “recipes” in which an action on one service can trigger an action on another entirely different service.
More than 100 other Internet services connect to IFTTT, including Twitter and YouTube.
even if your text messaging service, by itself, is not meant to be a sort of alert system for when your friend checks in on Foursquare, the start-up wants to make that sort of remixing possible.
A social media manager for a company, for example, could connect multiple Twitter accounts to IFTTT and set up recipes specific to each account.
Anyone can make IFTTT recipes to use and share with others — 15 million recipes are used on a daily basis — and that number has only increased as more services connect to IFTTT’s platform.
It is essentially a giant switchboard to connect disparate services, anything from Facebook to text messages to telephone calls. Users can create “recipes” in which an action on one service can trigger an action on another entirely different service.
More than 100 other Internet services connect to IFTTT, including Twitter and YouTube.
even if your text messaging service, by itself, is not meant to be a sort of alert system for when your friend checks in on Foursquare, the start-up wants to make that sort of remixing possible.
A social media manager for a company, for example, could connect multiple Twitter accounts to IFTTT and set up recipes specific to each account.
Anyone can make IFTTT recipes to use and share with others — 15 million recipes are used on a daily basis — and that number has only increased as more services connect to IFTTT’s platform.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Mobile Sales Lift Alibaba Profit Nearly Threefold, Ahead of I.P.O. - NYTimes.com
Mobile Sales Lift Alibaba Profit Nearly Threefold, Ahead of I.P.O. - NYTimes.com
The Chinese e-commerce behemoth disclosed on Wednesday that its profit nearly tripled in the quarter that ended June 30, to $2 billion. Its sales climbed 46 percent, to $2.5 billion.
In short, it is part eBay, part Amazon.com and part PayPal, with a hunger to invest in yet more up-and-coming industries.
Nearly a third of Alibaba’s gross merchandise volume, or the value of goods sold on Alibaba’s marketplaces, comes from mobile transactions, compared with just 12 percent a year ago. And the number of mobile monthly active users rose 15 percent compared with those in the period a year earlier, to 188 million.
The Chinese e-commerce behemoth disclosed on Wednesday that its profit nearly tripled in the quarter that ended June 30, to $2 billion. Its sales climbed 46 percent, to $2.5 billion.
In short, it is part eBay, part Amazon.com and part PayPal, with a hunger to invest in yet more up-and-coming industries.
Nearly a third of Alibaba’s gross merchandise volume, or the value of goods sold on Alibaba’s marketplaces, comes from mobile transactions, compared with just 12 percent a year ago. And the number of mobile monthly active users rose 15 percent compared with those in the period a year earlier, to 188 million.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
BBC News - James Foley: Extremists battle with social media
BBC News - James Foley: Extremists battle with social media: Just as Islamic State (IS) has swept across Iraq, so too has it swarmed over social media - using the platform with a sophistication never before witnessed in this way.
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