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Embracing Authenticity: Why Non-Algorithmic Social Media Platforms Are More Social Than Instagram, Tumblr, or Threads

The fallacy shared both by social media services and educational services is one of trying to engineer the perfect mix of content for their clients. What we find, I think, in both education and online media is that authentic content - that is, content based in a person's actual life and relations with...
Source: downes.ca

It just got a little easier to move your Facebook posts to some other platform

Social networks have typically followed the roach motel model of customer data: Make it easy to push data in, but hard/impossible to pull it back out. Platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter all make money by knowing what information you've (wittingly or unwittingly) handed over â…
Source: niemanlab.org

Moving fast and breaking us all: Big Tech’s unaccountable algorithms

Much of the technology driving revenues for the world’s most powerful digital platforms is accountable to no one—not even the companies themselves.
Source: rankingdigitalrights.org

Twitter Sentiment Analysis Approaches: A Survey

Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging and social networking platforms where massive instant messages (i.e. tweets) are posted every day. Twitter sentiment analysis tackles the problem of analyzing users’ tweets in terms of thoughts, interests and opinions in a variety of contexts and domains....
Source: online-journals.org

Yes you can learn surgery via YouTube

"Doctors are turning to YouTube to learn how to do surgical procedures, but there's no quality control: Tens of thousands of videos on YouTube show surgeries ranging from face-lifts to knee replacements. But the content isn't vetted or curated, and some doctors say it should be." The platform dominance...
Source: cnbc.com

Using social media to support small group learning: Medical curricula are increasingly using small group learning and less

Using social media to support small group learning: Medical curricula are increasingly using small group learning and less didactic lecture-based teaching. This creates new challenges and opportunities in how students are best supported with information technology. We explored how university-supported...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories

The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories focus on what platforms do. Some highlight the value they provide in terms of ease and convenience in connecting with needed resources. Others focus on the...
Source: typepad.com

Multi-social millennials more likely depressed than social(media)ly conservative peers: Compared with the total time spent

Multi-social millennials more likely depressed than social(media)ly conservative peers: Compared with the total time spent on social media, use of multiple platforms is more strongly associated with depression and anxiety among young adults, the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media,...
Source: eurekalert.org

"Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic: Internet

"Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic: Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?"...
Source: techrepublic.com

E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017.

blog post image E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017. I'm looking forward to engaging with as many of them as I can. Conversational technology. Why not have immediate access and personal learning support on platforms through messaging...
Source: agnate.co.uk

6 Reasons Platforms Fail: Perhaps the most egregious is a failure of imagination.

6 Reasons Platforms Fail: Perhaps the most egregious is a failure of imagination.
Source: hbr.org

Social media beneficial for sharing and building upon patient experiences, research shows: University of Leicester research

Social media beneficial for sharing and building upon patient experiences, research shows: University of Leicester research suggests patients often seek medical knowledge from social media platforms rather than traditional medical sources.
Source: eurekalert.org

Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum: Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories

Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum: Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics. Nature News.
Source: nature.com

Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS - Slashdot. My favourite browser now follows me on all platforms.

Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS - Slashdot. My favourite browser now follows me on all platforms.
Source: slashdot.org