EmTech 2017 Required Reading: Social Media and Society

Social media is connecting people around the world at an extraordinary pace. Yet there are important issues that we need to address if these technologies are to reach their potential.

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Tech policy5 years

Chastened by the negative effects of social media, Mark Zuckerberg says he will tweak his service and upgrade society in the process. Should any company be that powerful?

170415 years

What will it do to kids to have digital butlers they can boss around?

170415 years

We are beset by—and immersed in—apps and devices that are quietly reducing the amount of meaningful interaction we have with each other.

Tech policy5 years

Russia’s reinvention of war exploits old techniques for a new century. Open-source citizen investigators are fighting back.

170416 years

The Chinese government likes to control social media and what people do with it—but Facebook looks willing to launch in China anyway.

170415 years

Zeynep Tufekci’s new book shows how social networks have empowered mass protests—but also made them more fragile.

Computing5 years

Though the messaging app dominates in China, few Americans have even heard of it.

170417 years

The Islamic State is an Internet phenomenon as much as a military one. Counteracting it will require better tactics on the battlefield of social media.

170416 years

A hero of the Egyptian revolution laments the limits of social media and hopes to improve online dialogue.

EmTech 2017 Required Reading: Social Media and Society

We Need More Alternatives to Facebook

Growing Up with Alexa

Eliminating the Human

Russian Disinformation Technology

Mark Zuckerberg’s Long March to China

Why So Many Web-Fueled Protest Movements Hit a Wall

Can WeChat Thrive in the United States?

Fighting ISIS Online

Remaking Social Media for the Next Revolution

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