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Articles tagged privacy (50)

John WihbeyJuly 29, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What makes commenters less civil, and the rise of digital longform

When journalists factcheck politicians (or don’t), how to flag bad behavior on social media, and getting past slactivism: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

Twitter is public, but who does that benefit?

Mark CoddingtonMarch 21, 2014

This Week in Review: Nate Silver and data journalism’s critics, and the roots of diversity problems

Plus: Debating Twitter’s publicness and the ethics of quoting tweets, robot journalists, and the rest of the week’s news about journalism and the web.

Mark CoddingtonDecember 13, 2013

This Week in Review: Facebook’s viral content crackdown, and the NSA’s cookie grab

Plus: A shield-law victory, messaging changes at Twitter and commenting changes at HuffPo, and rest of the week’s news in media and tech.

Joshua BentonNovember 6, 2013

Tweet Buttons are less of a big deal than they used to be for your Twitter strategy

Whether it’s the growth of mobile, the shifting user base of Twitter, or something else, those sharing buttons appear to be generating a shrinking share of tweets linking to news stories.

Linda KinstlerJuly 19, 2013

When openness backfires: Is there room for more gray area in how court records are made public?

Two academics from NYU worry that the old binary system — a court document is either public or it’s not — doesn’t mesh well with a searchable online context, and that protecting access might mean rethinking it.

Kristin BergmanJune 11, 2013

Privacy versus transparency: Connecticut bans access to many homicide records post-Newtown

A well-intentioned attempt to shield the families of shooting victims “may have grave consequences for the future of the state’s transparency.”

Should media companies be doing more to protect their readers’ — and commenters’ — right to privacy?

Mark CoddingtonApril 5, 2013

This Week in Review: What Facebook Home will do to mobile, and retiring “illegal immigrant”

Plus: Alternatives to the metered model, Roger Ebert’s death, changes at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.

Mark CoddingtonJanuary 25, 2013

This Week in Review: Honoring Aaron Swartz’s legacy, and storytelling after the Te’o hoax

Plus: Google’s war with French newspapers, the inevitable privacy concerns with Facebook Graph Search, and the rest of the week’s media/tech news.

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