Why is it fun to be frightened? Explaining the psychological benefits of being safely scared
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Audiences flock to horror films. They get a thrill from movies like “Halloween,” with its seemingly random murder and mayhem in…
Audiences flock to horror films. They get a thrill from movies like “Halloween,” with its seemingly random murder and mayhem in…
How do you know whether you are being manipulated online? Research shows there are six foolproof ways to spot manipulation.
Under Musk's free-for-all guise, Twitter is in a very precarious spot, and research says it's unlikely to do well.
AI and algorithms shape many aspects of our everyday life, from the familiar algorithms structuring our social media feeds, to…
In the wake of yet another storm of revelations about the merciless practices of powerful technology companies, Velislava…
After a cursory glance over Twitter, it might seem obvious that negativity tends to thrive on a platform that can often be…
What happens when AI research and development are co-opted by economic ideology and corporate data platforms?Is the corporate…
Mark Twain famously popularized the saying “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Statistics can be very persuasive, for good or…
Misinformation campaigns spread like wildfire online. They render people unwitting pawns. Are you able to spot misinformation…
To better police misinformation, social media companies can curb their appetites for constant engagement. Governments and…
ByGordon HullNot long ago, Googlesummarily dumpedTimnit Gebru, one of its lead AI researchers and one of the few Black women…
Facebook has launched the largest voter registration effort in history. But this isn’t just any election season—and Facebook isn…
What kind of power do data scientists wield and what are the ethical implications?Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Friday happened to be the International Day of Happiness, but people around the world feel anything but happy right now. Many…
Entrepreneurs and change managers may ultimately be selling a dream, but that’s not what stakeholders are buying.
Is the following information relevant to you?: Tech companies collect and sell your data to business consumers, in some cases…
Is the following information relevant to you?: Tech companies collect and sell your data to business consumers, in some cases…
Analysing the social media strategies of Labour and the Conservatives during the 2017 general election, Paolo Gerbaudo explains…
Researchers want to use your cell phone’s location data to stop diseases from spreading. But at a time of data breaches…
Senator Josh Hawley recently introduced the The Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology (SMART) Act which is legislation to…
Written by Julian Savulescu Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article entitled “Three…
Everyone’s worried about smartphones. Headlines like “Have smartphones destroyed a generation?” and “Smartphone addiction could…
Dans le traitement de la question attentionnelle, les acteurs qui l’exploitent, renvoie toujours l’utilisateur à sa propre…
With Halloween just around the corner, researchers look at why many of us find enjoyment out of being scared.
On the surface, your own brain may be your furthest consideration when you are trying to improve your relationships. Yet it is…
THE CIA, NSA, FBI AND DOD ARE YOUR “FRIENDS” ON…
These researchers found a surprising pattern in the way emergency responders process different types of information under…
Some of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime will occur while you feel stressed and anxious. From…
[This blog post is a continuation of a recap of a recent workshop on data science ethics education.] The creation of ethics…
To protect the public without overreacting, the issue for legislators and regulators to weigh is how much the data-driven…
In light of the recent data breach between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, Ilka Gleibs revisits her blog on the importance of…
In light of the recent data breach between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, Ilka Gleibs revisits her blog on the importance of…
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg appears Tuesday for a Senate hearing. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Facebook CEO Mark…
(RNS) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress put a spotlight on a major shift within the American tech…
It's not just about data protection; it's about strategies designed to induce addictive behavior, and thus to…
ByGordon HullSurprise! Facebook is back in the news and the doghouse, this time for allowing vast amounts of user data to find…
A data firm collected tens of millions of people’s Facebook data without their consent. Here’s how that happened. View Entire…
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As revealed in a patent filing, Facebook is interested in using webcams and smartphone cameras to read our emotions, and track…
News emerged in June 2017 that Facebook was seeking three patents focussed on harnessing users’ emotions, using both cameras on…
Each time we post on social media, we leave traces of our mood.
Privacy watchdogs think a damning leaked document about Facebook targeting insecure teens could help usher in new era in…
Recently the NSPCC revealed that it had counselled 11,706 young people for anxiety in 2015-2016 via its Childline telephone…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich / Thinkstock) In the wake of the US election, critics have blamed Facebook for bringing about—at…
"The vast majority of Facebook is certainly more positive than your actual life is." Topics: Social Media, Facebook
Like life itself, technologies evolve. So it is that the telephone became the smartphone, that near-at-hand portal to the…
In 2014, Facebook came out as a player in social-science research, and a controversial one at that. Its “emotional contagion…
Almost every day over the last few years, someone has written about physician burnout or depression. The problems begin in…
Almost every day over the last few years, someone has written about physician burnout or depression. The problems begin in…
A few dominant institutions affect how you feel, act and vote... without you ever knowing about it. Mind control is happening…
Facebook Reactions don’t grant expressive freedom, they tighten the platform’s affective control. The range of human emotion is…
Citizens of Facebook, you will now be permitted to express these six feelings. All other emotions are forbidden. (credit…
An older man in Massachusetts had a truly nightmarish experience: a sneaky feline impostor found a way to take over the body of…
Almost every day for the last few years, someone is writing about physician burnout or depression. The problems begin in…
By Ilka Gleibs Informed consent is important in large-scale social media research to protect the privacy, autonomy, and…
In the last few years, Educational Data Science has emerged as a new field of inquiry in educational research. Where did it…
Posté dans fr.hypothesesAprès avoir « manipulé » des humeurs, Facebook agrémente ses « j’aime » d’émoticônes. Si Twitter mes...
With over a billion users, Facebook is changing the social life of our species. Cultural commentators ponder the effects. Is it…
Atrocities in Eritrea atop my Twitter feed. A few tweets below that, police violence against an innocent African American girl…
It must be summer: Facebook has released a controversial study of its users. Last year, it was the demonstration that the…
Informed consent is important in large-scale social media research to protect the privacy, autonomy, and control of social…
An earlier version of this essay appeared last year, under the headline “The Manipulators,” in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Social media can put you on an emotional roller coaster: in 10 minutes on Facebook, you may laugh at a coworkers cat GIF, feel…
Introduction, from Michael Alvarez, co-editor of Political Analysis Recently I asked Nathaniel Beck to write about his…
With over a billion users, Facebook is changing the social life of our species. Cultural commentators ponder the effects. Is it…
Facebook’s emotional contagion study and the Brave New World of Big Data Research- Ralph SchroederThe recent Facebook study…
It was a big year for robot penguins, snake penises, and space exploration. Sadly not all at the same time.
Altmetric's annual top 100 list provides an opportunity to see what science reached the general public and to think more about…
"There are tough issues here," said Leslie Meltzer Henry, a faculty member at the Berman Institute and expert on research ethics.
Follow-up post where I share a list and chart of 2014 Top 25 Paywalled and Top 25 Open Access Outputs in the 2014 Altmetric…
A paper revealing Facebook’s secret experiments on users received more online attention than any other scientific paper…
For researchers interested in studying human behavior, the explosion of social media data provides incredible opportunities.
[Let's welcome Aylin Caliskan-Islam, a graduate student at Drexel. In this post she discusses new work that applies machine…
David Hogg points me to this post by Thomas Lumley regarding a social experiment that was performed by randomly manipulating…
Earlier this year, researchers working for Facebook and Cornell University published a study in the Proceedings of the National…
“Being ahistorical may not matter if you are a dealing with the ‘life-cycle happiness of great apes’, but it does matter if you’r…
A new form of ‘interdisciplinarity’ may be emerging but has so far failed to devote equal demands on the natural sciences, as…
The social network doubles down on the results of its controversial — and flawed — study. AP Photo/Jeff…
Facebook vowed on Thursday to change the way it conducts research on its users, but the social networks statement fell short of…
Facebook announced new guidelines on Thursday for research on the social-media giant’s 1.3 billion users. The new oversight…
Bioethics as a discipline emerged in response to a series of medical and scientific research scandals that made national news…
“They said, ‘You can’t mess with my emotions. It’s like messing with me. It’s mind control.'” That’s what Cornell communication…
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Introduction from Michael Alvarez, co-editor of Political Analysis: Questions about data access, research transparency and…
Social media sites like Facebook are tailored to help people connect with friends, similar experiences and views. But there's a…
As I wrote the other day, more and more human subjects research is being performed by large tech companies. The best way to…
As I wrote the other day, more and more human subjects research is being performed by large tech companies. The best way to…
Several months ago Hillel Arnold asked me to participate in a panel at the Society of American Archivists, A Trickle Becomes a…
Facebook wound up in hot water last month after revealing it had drawn on its own users as unwitting test subjects in an…
I’ve was away over the weekend (apologies to Aunt Pythia fans!) and super busy yesterday but this morning I finally had a…
Web companies have been doing human subjects research for a while now. Companies like Facebook and Google have employed…
Web companies have been doing human subjects research for a while now. Companies like Facebook and Google have employed…
This post rolls up all of the major primary sources for the Facebook emotional manipulation study, along with selected news and…
July 2014 review of recent studies relating to online comment threads, media fact-checking on Twitter, social media content…
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“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur. “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked…
Having spent a good part of my career focused on research ethics issues, I have read with interest the reports and fallout…