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The Cowl - v. 71 - n. 4 - Sept 21, 2006
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 71 - Number 4 - September 21, 2006. 24 pages
The Fake News Spreading Plague: Was it Preventable?
In 2010, a paper entitled "From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political
Speech and Real-time search" won the Best Paper Prize of the Web Science 2010
Conference. Among its findings were the discovery and documentation of what was
termed a "Twitter-bomb", an organized effort to spread misinformation about the
democratic candidate Martha Coakley through anonymous Twitter accounts. In this
paper, after summarizing the details of that event, we outline the recipe of
how social networks are used to spread misinformation. One of the most
important steps in such a recipe is the "infiltration" of a community of users
who are already engaged in conversations about a topic, to use them as organic
spreaders of misinformation in their extended subnetworks. Then, we take this
misinformation spreading recipe and indicate how it was successfully used to
spread fake news during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The main
differences between the scenarios are the use of Facebook instead of Twitter,
and the respective motivations (in 2010: political influence; in 2016:
financial benefit through online advertising). After situating these events in
the broader context of exploiting the Web, we seize this opportunity to address
limitations of the reach of research findings and to start a conversation about
how communities of researchers can increase their impact on real-world societal
issues
Email at Work
Presents findings from a survey conducted in April and May 2002, to examine the role of email in mainstream work situations. Documents how workers utilize, value, and are affected by email, and looks at the future of email use in the workplace
Technical report and user guide: the 2010 EU kids online survey
This technical report describes the design and implementation of the EU Kids Online survey of 9-16 year old internet using children and their parents in 25 countries European countries
BlogForever D5.2: Implementation of Case Studies
This document presents the internal and external testing results for the BlogForever case studies. The evaluation of the BlogForever implementation process is tabulated under the most relevant themes and aspects obtained within the testing processes. The case studies provide relevant feedback for the sustainability of the platform in terms of potential users’ needs and relevant information on the possible long term impact
Teaching with Twitter:reflections on practices, opportunities and problems
In recent times there has been an increasing wave of interest in the use of Social Media for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. In particular, the micro-blogging platform Twitter has been experimentally used in various Universities world-wide. There are relevant publications reporting on experimentations with Twitter for reaching diverse learning goals, including better engagement, informal learning or collaboration among students. Existing research papers on the use of Twitter however focus exclusively on the positive aspects of experimentations, on what went well in the use of Twitter. In our University we run a small project on the use of Twitter with goals that are similar to those of others: fostering participation and better learning processes. In this paper we report on our project and the strategies and best practices we adopted for using Twitter for teaching. We also reflect that in our experimentation however we encountered a number of practical problems connected for example with use of technology, with the class settings and with spam. In the conclusion we offer some recommendations for Teaching and Learning with Twitter based on our personal experience
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