Researchers launch tool to understand spread of fake news
The Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University has launched a powerful new tool in the fight against fake news.
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A friend of a friend is... a dense network
It's a familiar request in the digital age: one of your friends on social media has a friend who wants to be your friend. Frequent linking among friends of friends can cause a rapid increase in social network connectivity.
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Dec 1, 2016
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Twitter enables longer tweets as part of growth push
Twitter announced Monday it was easing its 140-character limit on tweets, in the latest effort to broaden the appeal and boost the user base of the social network.
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Sep 19, 2016
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Your friends have more friends than you do
No matter how smart and funny you think you are, those you follow on Twitter really do have a larger following than you. And the same holds true for Facebook. But there is no reason to feel badly about any of this, according ...
Social Sciences
May 18, 2016
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First mathematical model to explain how things go viral
Scientists have come up with the first ever mathematical model to explain explosive contagion in social networks - in other words, how things go viral.
Computer Sciences
Feb 26, 2016
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For a happier life, give up Facebook, study says
Always envious? Got a non-existent social life and struggle to concentrate? All this might be down to Facebook if you believe a study showing those who go a week without using the social network feel happier than others.
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Nov 10, 2015
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Research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially
Until now, studies of human interactions through mobile communication and social media have always been conducted at the country scale—using broad strokes to produce illustrations of society's social networking tendencies. ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 11, 2015
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Facebook not an information bubble, researchers conclude
Social media networks like Facebook are not putting users in an ideological information bubble, despite fears to the contrary, a new research report said Thursday.
Social Sciences
May 7, 2015
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Twitter, YouTube, Instagram work on stealth advertising
The quandary for those who run social media networks is how to make money on them without antagonising and thus losing users through distracting ads.
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Apr 12, 2015
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Study says Facebook not to blame for negative impact on grades
It may not come as a surprise that the more time college students, particularly freshmen, spend on Facebook, the more their grades suffer. In his latest study, Reynol Junco, an associate professor of education at Iowa State ...
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