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Tag: Twitter
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Is there method to Musk’s madness on Twitter?
Harvard Business School’s Andy Wu says given his track record at SpaceX and Tesla, it’s not surprising what Elon Musk has been doing at Twitter.
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How demagogues wield social media
Cognitive scientist details research on the different ways Republicans and Democrats, use Twitter.
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Hidden figures
Many technology firms insist they would love to hire more Black women but just don’t know where to find them. Two female security experts aren’t buying that, so they decided to show them just how easy it is.
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A red oak live tweets climate change
Tree in Harvard Forest outfitted with sensors, cameras, and other digital equipment sends out on-the-ground coverage.
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Why your online data isn’t safe
With a spate of massive data privacy breaches in the last two years, Harvard Law Professor Urs Gasser, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center, discusses whether regulating big tech is the answer.
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Among young, trust in social media is low, poll says
New IOP poll finds that young adults don’t trust much, not even the big tech companies. Perhaps that’s why the findings also say they’re promising to turn out for the midterm elections in November in larger numbers.
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The ruse of ‘fake news’
In a recently published study, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Matthew Baum and Northeastern University Professor David Lazer, an associate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, argue that a multidisciplinary effort is needed to understand better how the Internet spreads content and how citizens process the news and information they consume.
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Bob Schieffer sees information overload
Veteran CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer returns to Harvard to discuss the Trump administration and how the technological changes reshaping the news business are also reshaping our ability to process information.
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HackHarvard makes the majors
Harvard sponsored its first hackathon, HackHarvard, drawing almost 500 students from around the world. The goal of the Nov. 13-15 event was to find solutions to real-life problems in just 36 hours.
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In sports, live TV is still No. 1
A panel of experts at Harvard Law School explored how the Internet and social media are redefining the traditional sports business model.
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The next Google
Google chairman Eric Schmidt talks about innovation and leadership in the digital age at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Putting Twitter to the test
The timely and effective use of social media in the hours and days following the Boston Marathon bombings may serve as a model for other law enforcement agencies in the United States, according to a report published as part of the New Perspectives in Policing Series by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management…
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Help you? Love to
Model Lily Cole’s life in the fashion spotlight has gradually given way to her interests in technology and society. Today she is a digital entrepreneur, the founder of the social network Impossible.com, which tries to fulfill wishes for free. On Wednesday, an event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society helped launch the website…
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#Twitterforsale
HBS Professor Josh Lerner evaluates the investor’s view of the much-anticipated Twitter IPO.
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The triumph of Twitter
With Twitter becoming a driving force in politics, snark and shallow scoops are undermining the media’s campaign coverage, study says.
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The media, remade
Three spring 2013 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, in collaboration with the Nieman Journalism Lab, this week launched an oral history/research multimedia project called “Riptide” to document the digital disruption of the news business and what that means for the future of news gathering and news publishing.
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Your own news platform
The information revolution seemed to hit another high gear last week in Boston, leaving authorities on information technology pondering the ramifications.
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With Visitas canceled, Harvard improvises
As a region-wide lockdown closed Harvard, University officials struggled with the difficult decision to cancel Visitas, Harvard College’s program for newly admitted students. Members of the Harvard community used social media to reach out to those who had planned to attend the event.
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Following the story
Melissa Block ’83, the host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” returned to campus to discuss her career and the changing landscape of digital media.
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Schoolyard scourge
Scholars convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to explore the topic of bullying and potential ways forward.
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Note taking in a clickable age
A recent Radcliffe symposium explored the history and future of note taking.
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Social media, but not just for fun
Social networks can be time-savers, not just time-wasters. A series of popular courses gives Harvard faculty and staff members Web tools that are useful for professional gain and creative collaboration.
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By the numbers
Thanks to the digital revolution, Harvard is developing a legion of cyberspace fans in the world of social media.
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Business School boost
A group of college undergraduates from around the country took part in a weeklong summer program at Harvard Business School in June designed to help them explore the business school environment through the HBS case method.
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Turkle talks technology, intimacy
“Technology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies,” explained Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Sherry Turkle to an engrossed audience May 14 at the Harvard University Extension School.
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‘Power Lunch’ comes to HBS
CNBC show “Power Lunch” interviews Harvard M.B.A. students to gain insights into prospects for Twitter’s future business model.
