In this talk, Deen Freelon talks about research data sourced from social media platforms to support computational research approaches in social science . Notes Despite its brevity, the essay “Computational research in the post-API age” (Freelon, 2018) sparked an interdisciplinary discussion about options for collecting and analyzing social media data at a time when platforms […]
The recent surge in NFT coverage in tyhe technology and financial press was typified by the story of an early NFT auction in which an investor paid $2.9m for an NFT linked to Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever Tweet on the platform. This, it was claimed, was an example of how new value could […]
Despite claiming in a recent interview that “technically” he could afford to purchase Twitter personally, Musk has chosen instead to fund the $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover with $21bn of his own money plus debt structures. The threatened poison pill response from the Twitter board appears to have been ineffective in the light of threatened legal action […]
View this email in your browser Spring Issue: 2022 In this issue … AI & Facial Recognition in the News – Jim Hendler Privacy and the Individual – Kieron O’Hara In Conversation with Bill Thompson Recent Publications Upcoming events – WebSci’22 AI & Facial Recognition in the News Jim Hendler Jim Hendler, a long-time WST […]
In this talk, Jennifer Zhu Scott talks about the need to create global inclusive data infrastructures and processes to address global issue Notes Technology has become a transformative force in almost every aspect of our lives. It permeates our personal, economic, and political life. However, large for-profit tech companies or a handful of tech-savvy governments dominate […]
The technology billionaire behind Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink and the Boring Company bought 9.2 per cent of the company, worth more than £2.2 billion, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr Musk is yet to publicly confirm or comment on the announcement.