Guest Blog Post: The Up-Vote, Down-Vote Conundrum
The Up-Vote, Down-Vote Conundrum Written by: Richi Tam “I only got 10 likes in the last 5 minutes. Do you think I should take it down?” Does this sound like someone you know? Your friend? Your colleague? Maybe even you…? Well if you must know, I was just quoting the Chainsmokers. However, I […]
Guest Blog Post: Connection
Connection Written By: Henry St. Clair There are strong parallels between the historic experience of television and the modern digital information environment. People have been staring at advertising saturated screens of one form or another for a rather long time. Yet while the TV of old might have courted a great deal of our […]
Article Review: The Tyranny of Convenience
The Tyranny of Convenience Tim Wu (2018) ________ Digital Tattoo Rating: 3/5 Summary The name Tim Wu might sound familiar: Wu coined the term “net neutrality”, which we reported on in February. He is a professor of law at Columbia University, ran for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governorship of New York, and […]
#DeleteFacebook? An Investigation into the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Part 2
As we learned in Part 1 of this series, Global Science Research (GSR), Facebook, and Cambridge Analytica have each been the subjects of recent controversy for their respective roles in mining data from over 50 million Facebook profiles. While we can investigate how each company contributed to this event, we must also examine our […]
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