Artificial intelligence can predict political beliefs from expressionless faces
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Scientists have demonstrated that facial recognition technology can predict a person’s political orientation with a surprising…
Scientists have demonstrated that facial recognition technology can predict a person’s political orientation with a surprising…
Polarisation has been rising globally for decades. Whilst most prominent in the US two-party system or over issues such as…
An expert on online privacy and fanfiction communities responds to Julian K. Jarboe’s “The Only Innocent Man.”
This post is part of a special series including contributions to the OBLB Annual Conference 2022 on ‘Personalized Law—Law by…
More and more people are using apps like Tinder and Hinge to date and meet life partners. Dating apps are increasingly a key…
Machine learning and AI might have gone too far.
Author: Sara Suárez-Gonzalo is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral resercher at the Communication Networks and Social Change…
Um die Vorteile der KI-Revolution voll ausschöpfen zu können, muss ein angemessener Rechtsrahmen geschaffen werden, der ihre…
A new study suggests that people can accurately predict others' musical preferences simply by looking at their faces.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzik explains the dark side of social data but posits that our social data has already been commoditized to…
This is such a useful visualisation by Ian M. Mackay making the point that there is no single way of being sure that you’ve…
HAFAugust 14, 2020 Individualistic western societies are built on the idea that no one knows our thoughts, desires or joys…
Jesteśmy w pięknym centrum Skirball Cultural Center w Los Angeles otoczonym górami Santa Monica. Mamy rok 2018 i zgromadzone tłum…
Artificial intelligence is a totalitarian’s dream – here’s how to take power…
Individualistic western societies are built on the idea that no one knows our thoughts, desires or joys better than we do. And…
Simon McCarthy-Jones raises the issues of power disparities in 'knowledge about us' and how to address it. Individualistic…
Many of us once saw the internet as a place separate from the real world. But over the course of the past decade, it’s become…
As the fall semester begins to wind down, fall recruitment season also nears its end. For some, this could be a time of joy as…
And if David finds out the data beneath his profile, you’ll start to be able to connect the dots in various ways with Facebook…
Companies often claim individuals’ data can be kept private if personally identifiable information remains hidden. But being…
This guest post about training and other resources for open research is authored by Fiona Murphy, Nicky Agate, Amy Price, and…
By Joanna…
Sixty-seven percent of smartphone users rely on Google Maps to help them get to where they are going quickly and efficiently.A…
We don’t know everything companies are gleaning from our raw data, and that’s not an accident. Here’s a guess—and a call for…
ByGordon HullIt’s not news that Facebook generates a lot of privacy concerns. But it’s nonetheless worth keeping up a little…
Researchers at the Psychometrics Centre knew better than most how Facebook data can be manipulated, but investigations and…
Researchers at the Psychometrics Centre knew better than most how Facebook data can be manipulated, but investigations and…
Why sign up for social media? Young or old, chances are you’ve taken a plunge of signing up to a social media account at least…
ByGordon HullOne of the things that marketers like about big data is that they can personalize ads. That operation is getting…
ByGordon HullA little more than a year ago, Ifloated a version of the thesisthat Big Data functions as a form of capitalist…
Author Matthew Hindman Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University The researcher whose work…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The researcher whose work is at the center of the uproar over Cambridge Analytica's Facebook…
Bill Below, OECD* Big data is in the spotlight again, this time with controversies surrounding Facebook’s handling of personal…
De personlige opplysningene til 50 millioner Facebook-brukere har blitt misbrukt. Saken setter hele Facebooks forretningsmodell…
The scientists warned us about big data and corporate surveillance. They tried to warn *themselves*.
This week, Cambridge Analytica made headlines after whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that the company had used data…
The scandal involving Facebook and political data firm Cambridge Analytica has cast attention on the burgeoning use of…
Zum wiederholten Mal wird seit zwei Tagen die Firma Cambridge Analytica durch meine Timeline getrieben, in Form einer durchaus…
A study looks at the impact social media has on our personal lives.
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Democrats and pundits shocked by Donald Trump’s victory scrambled to explain how…
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Through centuries of study, physical scientists have sought good explanations for the phenomena they study, helping the field…
The internet feels like a worse place lately. In March, the Pew Research Center cited hate memes, manipulative bots spewing…
This blog is part of the series "Small changes, big impacts: applying #behavioralscience into development". Access to an…
A recent paper by Ermanno Bencivenga in Philosophical Forum argues that it’s “time for philosophy to step into the conversation…
A recent paper by Hamid Ekbia presents an interesting Marxian theory of the relation between exploitation and computer networks. …
One of the more perplexing things about the Trump presidency is why it exists in the first place: he took office having lost…
Donald Trump’s victory came as a surprise and/or shock to most pollsters, journalists, scientists, and citizens all over the…
Waren sogenannte fake news oder Big Data verantwortlich für den Wahlerfolg Donald Trumps? Verfolgte man die massenmediale…
Donald Trump’s victory came as a surprise and/or shock to most pollsters, journalists, scientists, and citizens all over the…
An increasingly diverse array of geospatial, network, and time-series data is being used to generate new perspectives and…
In keeping with its continuous innovation and research in the analytics field, Keyrus, an international player in Data…
During the AAP/PSP annual meeting last week, a panel discussion with representatives of a consortia, a publisher, and a…
Technology Photo credit: Grisha Bruev/shutterstock.com An overlooked aspect of the draft Investigatory…
By Gregory Maus Published: March 10th, 2015
2014 review of recent studies and reports on online discrimination and potential downsides of digital marketplaces featuring…
By Gordon…
Facebook, Twitter, Google, or almost any website you use is watching you and your every move. But how much do they really know…
Social networking sites display multiple facets of life: social, professional, and romantic. Self-regulated presentations of…
CNN video: Study: Facebook 'likes' serve as personality test (watch below). The research done by a team at Cambridge University…
One of the challenges we face when using alternative metrics is the interpretation of what we measure. This is even more…
2013 year-in-review list of a dozen top studies and reports in the area of digital, social and news media-related scholarship.The…
Social media offers exciting data resources for researchers. But if this body of complex data and its subsequent analysis are…
The exposure of the PRISM surveillance system by Edward Snowden gave me a sort of "So what else is new?" reaction... I thought…
[This post is part of the online symposium I've organized over at Bill of Health on the Law, Ethics, and Science of Re-Identifica…
This PNAS piece presents evidence based on a 58,000 person sample that based on your trail of "Facebook Likes" that Big Data…
(les diapos de mon intervention sur "l'industrie lourde de la dématérialisation" n'étant pas très lisibles, je republie ici…
Note: I have re-written this post in response to comments from biostatistician Thomas Lumley below. It made headlines around…
What kinds of research did people talk about in March? For once, non-health topics were more prominently featured – people…
Voici donc, comme toujours, quelques remarques et commentaires à vos annotations sur les textes de la séquence 7 sur l’économie…
Some interesting posts, here and there, discovered this week, “A theorem fit to terrify bankers” http://timharford.com/…
Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, and Thore Graepel in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: We show that…
Wahrscheinlich ist inzwischen fast jede|r über die von Microsoft Research unterstützte Studie zu Facebook-Likes und Persönlichkei…
Derzeit geht im Internet die Meldung um, Wissenschaftler könnten mit Hilfe von Facebook-Likes private Informationen wie zum…
For our next installment of Facebook-related research, we present a study of “Likes”, in which the researchers investigated…
By Charles…
When you add them all up, what do your Facebook Likes reveal about you? More than you might think
In lieu of a ‘proper’ post (forgive me, dear readers, the vicious task-masters at my proper job have been wielding the whip…
What do Facebook users who “like” Mozart, Morgan Freeman’s voice, "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and curly fries have in…
What do Facebook users who “like” Mozart, Morgan Freeman’s voice, "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and curly fries have in…
Your publicly available “likes” can tell others a lot you wouldn’t expect—including your political views, sexual orientation…
Liking these is a predictor of higher intelligence on Facebook. Moira…