Social

How to stay safe on social media?

Social media has become an integrated part of our lives as we are using it more and more for personal reasons but also for business reasons. It’s not rare that we access social media from our personal devices but also from our business ones. And it isn’t rare that we are accessing social media accounts […]

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What’s your type of personality on social media? Quiz

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Bucharest Local Elections 2016 in social media

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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Selfies

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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Sharing on Social Media?

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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Content Moderation – The Undignified Work in Social Media

 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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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 […]

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You are a product! Do not delude yourself, you are not a customer anymore, you are a commodity!

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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Social media: An unequal battle for attention

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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The Only 5 Actions That You can Take on Social Media Platforms

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 […]

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