The Emerging Social Landscape
Resources: The Emerging Social Landscape
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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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