Social Media and Freedom: A Promise Betrayed

Social Media and Freedom: A Promise Betrayed

Facebook and Twitter are now fueling hatred, conflict, repression, and in some cases – genocide. Where do we go from here?  “Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true/Or is it something worse?” Bruce Springsteen, “The River” Back in...

Hurricane Sandy Coverage on Storify: An Inflection Point?

Major news outlets use Storify to aggregate & make sense of social media flow about Hurricane Sandy In the last two days, as we’ve all been inundated (pardon the lame water-related pun) with near-constant TV, radio, web & social media updates on the...