India Watches Social Sites After Communal Violence by Erik Sass

While social media has contributed to the fall of dictators and the hunt for war criminals, it can also help catalyze civil disorder arising from various socioeconomic, religious, and ethnic tensions. In the latest example, the Indian government is asking security and law enforcement agencies to monitor social media sites for inflammatory content and rumor-mongering following another bout of communal violence. ...Read the whole story

Can Female Programmers Crack The Creepiness Of Friend Finder App? by Steve Smith

It is an interesting and always contested proposition that gender bias gets built into some media and technology. And it begs the question -- can female programmers better address the privacy squishiness in some LBS apps? ...More

  • Who Came in First in the Olympic Games of Social Marketing? A Recap by Rob Jewell

    Since the summer of 2008 there has been explosive growth across the entire social media landscape with Facebook growing from approximately 100 million users in 2008 to more than 900 million in 2012 and Twitter growing from 6 million to 140 million in that same period. ...More