Resources: The Emerging Social Landscape

Italic = Reading List

* = Core Resource

Bold = PTI Member

• Twitter List

  • Accounts to follow for the latest on the Emerging Social Landscape.

• New Modes of Communication

  • The Flight from Conversation

  • Personal Connections in the Digital Age

  • How Facebook Has Flattened Human Communication

  • Ego-centrism over email: can we communicate as well as we think?

  • Can you connect with me now?

  • Digital Deception

• 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