Information Cascades stopping Terrorism
This article talks about how Arizona State University got a Minerva grant to explore how information cascades work on social media. The hope is to be able to use this information in order to counter messages sent over social media by terrorist groups. The research plans to see what kind of networks and and posts […]
Social Media and Election
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/technology/fake-news-on-facebook-in-foreign-elections-thats-not-new.html?_r=0 Social media is good because it helps spread out information. However, if the information it spreads is fake, then it becomes bad. After or even before the election, tons of fake news and stories were posted on Facebook and other social medias. The algorithm of Facebook makes things that people want to see bump […]
How Do Cascades Influence Decision Making in Social Networks
We have learned in class that cascades influence people’s decisions very deeply. In reality, people tend to follow the crowds. When a few people start to make the same decisions, their friends are likely to make the same decisions. When a new technology appears, if most of a person’s friends start to adopt this new […]
Monkey See, Monkey Do
In 2010, experts studying Zambian chimpanzees observed something truly extraordinary; after one member of the chimpanzee group, Julie, stuck a piece of grass behind her ear, 8 out 12 members of her group followed suit. This phenomenon not only confirmed chimpanzees’ copycat behavior, but also confirmed them as cultural beings. Julie, a female Zambian chimpanzee residing […]
Facebook’s news filtering and distribution of fake news
Article Link In the article “From Hate Speech to Fake News: The Content Crisis Facing Mark Zuckerberg”, author Aarti Shanani discusses the current problem circulating around the web in regards of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook news. After the elections this year, Donald Trump won and many people believe that him winning the swing-states that were supposed to […]
Game Theory To Save the Planet?
Climate negotiations are something that we are all well aware, and hopefully it is something that is important to all of us. Countries have met to discuss the issue multiple times and many countries have pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but did they pledge enough? Scientists say no, it will not be enough […]
Donald Trump and Game Theory
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/what-game-theory-tells-us-about-donald-trump-20160511 Donald Trump has basically shocked the nation after the results of the election came out. For him, he has been using a strategy that has both benefitted and harmed him throughout the election that has definitely caused some controversy. In this article, it talks about the prisoner’s dilemma, which involves two prisoners who are […]
Messaging Application Adoption: Does the Best Technology Always Prevail?
With its creation back in 2004, Facebook leveraged a unique interface to allow users to more actively engage with their friends. While it originally started as a basic profile navigation site, it quickly developed additional capabilities to enhance opportunities to stay in touch with other users. One of these capabilities […]
Bias at Facebook Didn’t Just Start with the Election
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html Over the past week, numerous news articles and blog posts have focused on the election and fake stories propagated by Facebook. In this blog post, I will examine information cascades and how Facebook’s algorithms were viewed even a few months prior to the election, and how these predictions were ultimately accurate in portraying Facebook’s […]
Facebook And the Election
Many people have called into question social media, and more notably Facebook in general, for its influence in this past election. Facebook is a source of news for many, and there is a plethora of informative political videos and pages throughout the site. However, with Facebook’s algorithm comes a certain problem. This problem is that […]
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