A new paper published by Public Agenda quotes both of EnCiv's founders, Will Ferguson and Adolf Gundersen, on the importance of non-profit alternatives to commercial social media. Public Agenda is…
Past Federal Elections Commission Chair and current Commissioner Ellen Weintraub has publicly denounced "micro-targeting", the use of social media to craft highly specialized messages for niche audiences. A Yahoo Finance…
A new three-minute video called "The Online Speech Wars" explains struggles over the First Amendment in an age of social media, struggles that surfaced as recently as two years ago.…
Until US campaign laws are re-written, we're likely to be in for a lot more Russian-style intervention in our elections. That's the conclusion of at least one scholar who's studied…
The answer appears to be "Yes"--at least according to one creatively-designed research study. Photo by Visual Content For the study, New York University's Pablo Barbera examined millions of social media…
Facebook is among the titans of social media--but hardly a friendly one. In fact, according to an in-depth analysis by major Facebook investor Roger McNamee, social media giants like Facebook…