Resources: The Emerging Social Landscape
The emerging social landscape
A selection of critical resources on technology and the emerging social landscape we’ve curated. Starred items are those we consider to be the most essential if you don’t have time to review the entire list.
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New Modes of Communication
Forming relationships with AI (social robots, chatbots, etc.)
- Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Advertising, etc.
- What are we missing?
- Digital (voice) assistants?
Social Media/Networks
- Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives* (A somewhat dated but detailed report on how teens view their social and emotional lives in the age of social media.)
- Connected by Nicholas Christakis
- Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why?
- Detecting Emotional Contagion in Massive Social Networks
- Social Interactions in MMORPGs
- Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining
- Social Media or Social Minefield?
- Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
- Social Media Use in 2018
- Teens’ Social Media Habits and Experiences
- Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
- Teens, Social Media, and Technology 2018
- Does online technology make us more or less sociable?
Manipulation/Misinformation
- Podcast: The Information War (Interview w/ Renee DiResta)* (A digital misinformation experts explains how political discourse is manipulated online and the challenges of trying to regulate it.)
- Stand Out of Our Light by James Williams (A philosopher and humane tech advocate issues a call-to-arms, arguing that digital technology undermines personal and political reflection.)
- The Digital Maginot Line by Renee DiResta
- Zeynep Tufekci TED Talk
- Video: The Many Costs of Social Media Addiction
- The Science of Fake News
- Should Facebook Manipulate Users?
- Digital Deception: Why, When and How People Lie Online
- Deception and design: the impact of communication technology on lying behavior
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