Speaker Alix Levine spoke in Classroom A on this fascinating topic. Unfortunately I had to miss it in order to get the goods in the main theater. But here is what was discussed– Alix Levine, Director of Research at Cronus Global, examines the development and structure of online extremist communities. Many of today’s extremists interact…
As social networks grow and evolve from audiences into dedicated communities, some news sources have begun to tap their online readership as volunteer investigative reporters. Journalists are now looking to their Twitter followers and Facebook fans for help in gathering research and information for news articles. This leads to a better source of material, as…
Here’s an interesting exercise – Stanford Professor B.J. Fogg created this interactive public graph on Google Docs on how game mechanics alter behaviors. Anonymous users are invited to view and edit this range bar graph. The purpose is to place popular websites, social media companies and apps in relative dimension to their “gamey-ness” (how many…
