Hello there, What have you been up to? Well, we moved to another “house”, as you might have already noticed. We decided to move to our own domain and a new website built on the WordPress platform because it gives us many new opportunities to expand and create better visual content. Please be patient, we […]
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What does social media say about the Bucharest local elections on 05.06.2016? In the picture above you can find a rather simple semantic analysis taken out of Twitter for the first three contenders to become the mayor of Bucharest, Romania’s capital, in the 2016 elections. I will not go into too much detail on them […] |
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The selfie is viewed as being symptomatic of the negative influence social media has on our lives and our self-portrayed images. There is also no doubt that selfies trigger our curiosity because they are both ubiquitous and admittedly morally questionable. They are largely associated with young females searching for social approval but they can be […] |
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This is a topic that is very dear to me, because one of my core beliefs is that information is most valuable when it is shared. Nevertheless, we not always decide to share information that we find useful or interesting. Why is that? To start, I had a look at a survey conducted by Oglivy […] |
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Today I am touching a sensitive subject – content moderation in social media. The reason it is a sensitive matter is because the work of content moderation itself constitutes the tenuous job of erasing all the dirt, the crime, the outrageous, the terrifying and the abominable that humans are capable of putting on the web. […] |
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While we apparently know what we’re getting into, meaning we know the difference between various social networks, read their ever-changing and never-ending privacy policies and we define our preferences as to what and how we contribute to a given platform, people with special training, often stop and engage in serious categorization adventures with regard to […] |
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As you must have probably guessed by now, my vision of social media is quite compassionate and humanistic. So here’s one concern that I have with regard to social media. I am wondering: is it fair to compete with machines (bots), social marketers, huge media outlets, etc. for the attention of my friends? Imagine Michelle, […] |
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Up until relatively recently I’ve never put a mirror upon myself to see how I behave on the internet and why. Like any other person I would emerge into the web and jump from one platform to another, from one piece of content to the other, never actually stopping and analyzing what I was doing […] |
Why do people hit the “Like” button?
This is a topic I came up with while talking to my husband over a delicious Greek lunch. He’d just posted on Facebook a bunch of photos from our trip to Zakynthos and we had a look at how many likes he’d got. And then we started talking … After that talk, I put a bit […]