Malcolm Gladwell’s classic critique of the political impact of social media

First Blog Post Assignment

Question: “What is ‘social’ about social media?”

Address this question by discussing the specific form of “sociality” created by social media. Link your analysis to the historical development of Web 2.0, and emphasise the tensions between empowerment and…

Recent changes to the Facebook News Feed: Less Fake News?

Does Social Media add to our relationships or does it replace them?

Social Media is actually affecting people’s brains because of how it modified the way people interact with each other. Face to face interactions activate the right hemisphere, which is more emotional, while online…

How Blockbuster was destroyed for not following the era

It might be easy to say that many world revolutions happened way before the social networks. Therefore, we might say that they could have still happened today without the help of social media.

The Followers Factory

A very interesting article by The New York Times discussing the flourishing “black market”“ behind the most important…

TV Live-Chat, a discontinued social medium ?

In 2003, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation launched a musical channel called “Nagham”. The Channel used to broadcast the famous show Star Academy and it was really famous at that time.

Employees spend around 2.02 years at Facebook

As a college student, I’m always impressed by the biggest tech companies and I feel proud when I see an important number of my university’s allumni working at these companies.

#Hashtag

“Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers ‘everyone’ an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage…