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Follow to be followed: Analyzing The centrality of Ministries of Foreign Affairs in Twitter Networks
Through Twitter, diplomats can comment on world events in near-real time, narrate their state’s actions…
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OpenAI may have rehired Sam Altman, but AI needs more accountability, not ‘geniuses’
– in ToolsThe OpenAI employees had faith in Altman. They believed in his vision and they did…
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Information Architecture meets the Philosophy of Information
Advancing the practical and theoretical basis for how we conceptualise and shape the infosphere.
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P-values are widely used in the social sciences, but often misunderstood: and that’s a problem.
We need to make standards for interpreting p-values more stringent, and also improve transparency in…
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Using Wikipedia as PR is a problem, but our lack of a critical eye is worse
That Wikipedia is used for less-than scrupulously neutral purposes shouldn’t surprise us – our lack…
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Current alternatives won’t light up Britain’s broadband blackspots
Satellites, microwaves, radio towers – how many more options must be tried before the government…
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Will China’s new national search engine, ChinaSo, fare better than “The Little Search Engine that Couldn’t”?
Branded explicitly as “China Search: Authoritative National Search,” ChinaSo reinforces a sense of national identity.…
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The social economies of networked cultural production (or, how to make a movie with complete strangers)
Looking at “networked cultural production”—ie the creation of cultural goods like films through crowdsourcing platforms—specifically…
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Online crowd-sourcing of scientific data could document the worldwide loss of glaciers to climate change
The platform aims to create long-lasting scientific value with minimal technical entry barriers—it is valuable…