Social media
Alternative labels
Online social networks
Journal article
Towards open annotation: examples and experiments
This article interrogates how digital text annotation tools and projects facilitate online engagement and virtual communities of practice. With the rise of the Web 2.0 movement and the proliferation of digital resources, annotation has evolved from an isolated practice to a collaborative one.
Report
Disinformation and ‘fake news’: final report
This report repeats earlier recommendations for clear legal liabilities to be established for tech companies to act against harmful or illegal content on their sites, and calls for a compulsory Code of Ethics defining what constitutes harmful content.
Journal article
Citizen-scholars: social media and the changing nature of scholarship
In this conceptual article, the authors argue that practicing public, social scholarship and increasing the use of social media to promote scholarship are the civic responsibility of citizen-scholars, so that research becomes more widely accessible, shareable, and usable in the public sphere.
Report
Blocking the data stalkers
Ninety per cent of the world’s data was created in the last two years, and over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced every day.
Report
The tactics & tropes of the Internet Research Agency
With the benefit of the full data set, this report delivers in-depth analysis of the US 2016 Election interference effort of the expansive Internet Research Agency (IRA) operation.