Censoring The Terrors Of War
December 22nd, 2016 | by EJC
Who decides whether or not an image is fit for human consumption, and on what groundsDecember 22nd, 2016 | by EJC
Who decides whether or not an image is fit for human consumption, and on what groundsNovember 18th, 2016 | by EJC
Social media platforms have terms of use that restrict several types of content including nudity, hate speech, and violence. But these are always subject to interpretationJune 15th, 2016 | by EJC
Felix Hain asks whether live stream apps like Periscope and Facebook Live are useful tools for journalistsOctober 17th, 2015 | by EJC
Part of ACAPS’ Nepal Earthquake response included a social media monitoring pilot: the team produced fortnightly monitoring reports, with the aim of helping to identify needs, concerns, developing trends and emerging risks among the effected population; and conversations related to the quality and accessibility of aidSeptember 15th, 2015 | by EJC
An Instagram account purportedly documenting a migrant’s journey from Dakar, Senegal, to Spain began trending earlier this year after the Huffington Post shared a story about it. The account, which was in fact created by a Spanish production company, is emblematic of the hazards that come with taking what we see on social media at face valueSeptember 11th, 2015 | by EJC
VKontakte is ranked second globally for social networks, so how come you haven’t heard of itJune 17th, 2015 | by EJC
Fidel Castro is no stranger to death rumours. On January 9th 2015, Twitter was awash with such gossip once again - and the claims continued to spread even after larger media organisations had already dispelled the rumours. But how exactly did the rumours start? MO* reconstructs the rumour mill in this “making off”March 27th, 2015 | by EJC
Online censorship may be as old as the Internet, but in today’s high-tech world, it is increasingly a perpetual arms race between censors looking for better ways to probe and muzzle, and a circumvention community looking to help the censored get and send information while protecting their digital identityMarch 13th, 2015 | by EJC
Location is especially valuable and sensitive metadata, especially when there is a lot of it, because it can be used to derive so much information about a person. But is it possible to share this information in a privacy-preserving wayJanuary 19th, 2015 | by EJC
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