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Cyberculture agenda: [Interactive] The Global Terrorism Database; Clickbait; Crowdfunded news-site after ISIS; Self-segregation on social networks [on Ferguson]

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Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story  …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson on Saturday August 9, 2014. After his body lay in the hot street for four hours, Ferguson residents took to the streets to protest his killing. Brown’s death, the … Read more

Cyberculture Agenda: Facebook 690,000-user psychology experiment…

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Facebook manipulated 690,000 users’ News Feeds to run a psychology experiment  The Next Web by Jon Russell Facebook is more than just a social network, it is also officially an online science laboratory. The company has revealed in a research paper that it carried out a week-long experiment that affected nearly 700,000 users to test the effects of transferring emotion … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Pew Report: 72% of Online Adults in US are Social Networking Site Users; On MIT?s report on Aaron Swartz?s prosecution..

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  72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users   The Pew Research Center‘s Internet & American Life Project has been studying online adults? social networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger adults continue to be the most likely … Read more