My troubled relationship with social media
Do you care about donuts? I did, once. I’m not so sure anymore. I used to love donuts, was passionate
Read moreShaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism
Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media
Read moreDesigning for Empathy and Health
When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The
Read morePublic Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks
Public health is regrettably not a field that I often think of when I consider powerful examples of using social
Read moreTwitter shows how the news is made, and it’s not pretty — but it’s better that we see it
With the tragic events surrounding the Boston Marathon bombings today, the strength and weaknesses of Twitter and the new media
Read moreSocial Media and the Changing Role of Journalists Covering It
Om Malik from Giga OM writes today about the changing role of media and how the new media is transforming
Read moreThe Business Model of Social Media: Who Owns the Presses?
When Karl Marx asked: Who owns the presses? he was referring to the ability of wealthy private individuals to control the means of knowledge production and dissemination and thus, influence society as capital owners, not as citizens. The unequal voice of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat was what gave them undue social power. But what happens when the owners and generators of wealth (knowledge, information) shift and the result is a community that relies on the medium of production without the control of it?
Read moreToo Much Social Media, Not Enough Social Message
Social media is any networked information technology, tool or platform that derives its content and principal value from user engagement
Read moreSocial Media Staycation
18 days abroad and a bad set of Internet connections gave me a rare opportunity to take a break from
Read moreSocial Networks: Beyond the Numbers
Powerful social network research is as much about having a good statistician as it is an anthropologist and together, they need to have the story that comes from it, woven together by the users.
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