Social Media
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Amazon cloud sputters for hours, and a boatload of websites go offline
Article In this article, Brodkin reports on the IoT devices that went down during Amazon S3 outage.
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Consolidation in the Internet Economy
Article In this article, answer "How will consolidation impact the Internet’s technical evolution and use?"
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Dialogue Group 4
Dialogue Group This dialogue group meeting prompt was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues Course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and...
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Dialogue Group 5
Dialogue Group This dialogue group meeting prompt was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues Course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and...
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Facebook And Our Phones May Be Wreaking Havoc On Our Morality - Vox
Article Digital distractions such as social media and smartphones wreak havoc on our attention spans. Could they also be making us...
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Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
Article In this article, take a look at Facebook's own in-depth research which shows a significant teen mental-health issue. Thus far, Facebook has...
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Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead.
Article In this article, the authors discuss Facebook's internal memos which show how a big 2018 change rewarded outrage and how CEO...
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Gmail and other popular Google services experienced a partial service outage at a very bad time
Article In this article, Oreskovic reports on some of Google's most popular services, including Gmail and Google Calendar, that experienced technical...
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Group Project 01: The Social Media Situation
Group Project In this group project, students in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department are...
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Here's How Google Makes Sure It (Almost) Never Goes Down
Article In this article, take a look at a new book that peers into the system that keeps Google up and...
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How Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories
Article This article describes how a hacking group targeted Eastern European countries with disinformation campaigns. Their strategy was to hack the content...
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How Jair Bolsonaro used ‘fake news’ to win power
Article This article tells the story of how Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil in 2018. His campaign strategy involved the...
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How WhatsApp Destroyed a Village
Article This article discusses how false information about child abductions circulating WhatsApp in India caused at least 29 deaths from people attacking...
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely
Article In this article, Stephen Marche talks about how even though social media has made society more densely networked than ever, it may be making...
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Posting less, posting more, and tired of it all: How the pandemic has changed social media
Article In this article, it examines how after one year, Covid-19 has altered how people use social media.
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Qanon Deploys 'Information Warfare' to Influence the 2020 Election
Article This article describes how the Qanon conspiracy theories infliltrate social media. The article argues that the spread of Qanon content signals a...
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So Much for Decentralized Internet
Article In this article, Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost makes an urgent argument in The Atlantic that the commercialization and centralization of the internet puts...
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Stewardship of global collective behavior
Academic Paper Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties of groups emerge from the way individuals generate...
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Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats
Article In this article, Streitfeld notes that at the start of this decade, the Arab Spring blossomed with the help of social media,...
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The Alt-Right Are Savvy Internet Users. Stop Letting Them Surprise You
Article In this article, the author discusses how far-right influencers gain popularity on YouTube through gaming the "attention economy." The author...
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The pandemic has crushed young people’s spirits
Article In this article, Thomas S. Hibbs claims that the pandemic has given rise to widespread dislocation in a number of ways....
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The United States Isn't Doomed to Lose the Information Wars
Article In this article, Doowan Lee discusses the ways China and Russia have launched disinformation attacks online and suggests a few...
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Trust the News? Lecture Slides
Lecture / slides In these lecture slides for the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department, the following...
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Twitter begins emailing the 677,775 Americans who took Russian election bait
Article This article details how Twitter emailed all users who interacted with accounts confirmed to be from the Russian troll farm that meddled...
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'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
Article In this article, we hear the concerns of Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook employee who directly observed Facebook treating user...
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UW professor: The information war is real, and we’re losing it
Article In this article, the author discusses Kate Starbird, a professor at the University of Washington, and her study of conspiracy theories...
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We desperately need a way to defend against online propaganda
Article This article describes how fake news spreads on social media, why "not feeding the trolls" isn't a sufficient solution, and why...
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Who controls the Internet?
Article In this article, it attempts to answer the question "Who owns the internet". Decentralization means the Internet is controlled by...
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Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
Article In this article, Steve Secklow investigates why Facebook is failing to curb the spread of hate speech against ethnic minorities...
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Writing Reflection 04: Social Media and the Internet
Writing Reflection In this writing reflection, students in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department...