Twitter Politics, Drunken Driving And Tax Deductions
Every Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit organization made up of some of North America’s most respected economists, releases its latest batch of working papers. The papers...
View ArticleThis Algorithm Knows You Better Than Your Facebook Friends Do
Plenty of us saw the 2013 movie “Her” and wondered whether something like the customized personal assistant voiced by Scarlett Johansson could ever be possible. And then plenty of us moved on, never...
View ArticlePodcast: The Alchemy Behind Book Publishing
“I think a lot about what’s going on on [an author’s] Facebook page, what’s happening on Twitter. How are you doing on Instagram? Can we see seeds that would grow because they happen to be quite funny...
View ArticlePodcast: How BuzzFeed Made #TheDress Go Viral
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View ArticleEveryone’s Still Chasing The Yankees And Red Sox On Facebook And Twitter
The Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets on Twitter as well as in the World Series.The Royals had about 479,000 followers on Twitter as of this morning, 15,000 more than the Mets had — even though...
View ArticleEveryone Has Fake Twitter Followers, But Trump Has The Most. Sad!
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View ArticleTwitter Politics, Drunken Driving And Tax Deductions
Every Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit organization made up of some of North America’s most respected economists, releases its latest batch of working papers. The papers...
View ArticleThis Algorithm Knows You Better Than Your Facebook Friends Do
Plenty of us saw the 2013 movie “Her” and wondered whether something like the customized personal assistant voiced by Scarlett Johansson could ever be possible. And then plenty of us moved on, never...
View ArticlePodcast: The Alchemy Behind Book Publishing
“I think a lot about what’s going on on [an author’s] Facebook page, what’s happening on Twitter. How are you doing on Instagram? Can we see seeds that would grow because they happen to be quite funny...
View ArticlePodcast: How BuzzFeed Made #TheDress Go Viral
By Jody Avirgan More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS Twitter is humming 24 hours a day. Facebook has peak times in the mornings and then a “prime time” in the evening. And the enigmatic Facebook...
View ArticleEveryone’s Still Chasing The Yankees And Red Sox On Facebook And Twitter
The Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets on Twitter as well as in the World Series. The Royals had about 479,000 followers on Twitter as of this morning, 15,000 more than the Mets had — even...
View ArticleEveryone Has Fake Twitter Followers, But Trump Has The Most. Sad!
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View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Corker Uncorked
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View ArticlePolitical Twitter Is No Place For Moderates
Twitter has never been a bastion of the Queen’s English, but recent reporting has unearthed a variety of polarizing posts about American politics that are presumed to be of Russian origin, in part...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Quitting Facebook Is That We Like Facebook
We have now come to bury Facebook, not to praise it. In the past few weeks, after the revelation that consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained the data of more than 50 million Facebook users to...
View ArticleCan Conservatives Ever Trust A Tech Industry Staffed Mostly By Liberals?
Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy. Prominent conservatives, including activists, members of Congress and President Trump himself, are...
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