Category: Internet
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New edition of Bradley’s seminal internet search handbook tackles fake news
Facet Publishing have announced the release of the 5th edition of Phil Bradley’s Expert Internet Searching. In the fifth edition of Expert Internet Searching, author Phil Bradley targets the recent phenomena of fake news. Bradley explains why it occurs, how it can be identified and how information professionals can lead the charge in combating it. […]
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Important New Report on Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
A new report by Data + Society, “Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online,” reveals how “an amalgam of conspiracy theorists, techno-libertarians, white nationalists, Men’s Rights advocates, trolls, anti-feminists, anti-immigration activists, and bored young people” used the collaborative culture of the internet to spread their beliefs and manipulate the media. This extensive report by Alice Marwick and […]
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PressureNet: Great Beginner Citizen Science Project
Project: PressureNet By: Samuel Cynamon, Corey Atkins, Jialang Li We chose this project because it offers a unique opportunity to start a new initiative on campus to aide in the crowdsourcing weather app using recycled phone, and solar energy. Normally users just need to have it downloaded on their phone to allow the automatic reporting system to […]
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Queer Internet Studies 2.0
Although I had a two-day migraine, I could not resist going to Jack Gieseking’s, Jessa Lingel’s, and Anne Esacove’s gathering of queer internet researchers from all over! When I arrived at the end of the first panel discussion, the second Queer Internet Studies Symposium audience was already abuzz with questions in the seminar room of The Institute of Contemporary Art at UPenn. We were […]
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Voyant Exploration
I used Voyant to analyze two speeches: Michelle Obama’s final speech as First Lady of the United States, and President Barack Obama’s final speech as President of the United States. Voyant takes in text which becomes a corpus that is then analyzed for things such as word frequency, total word count, unique word count, etc. […]
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Search Engine Algorithms
I recently performed the same search in two different search engines: Google and the Dartmouth College Library Catalog. Typing “how to” into google yielded five results of varying media. My first result was the wikiHow homepage; my second result was the Wikipedia page of the term “how-to”; the third result was the HowToBasic YouTube channel; […]
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Jake Tapper
I decided to use “Jake Tapper” as my Google search phrase, as I am a senior this year and it was just announced that he would be this year’s commencement speaker. When I searched his name in Google, the top of the search results page showed links with images to three recent news stories about […]
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Google or Library Search?
To Google or not to Google? Google took over the market for search engines, and instead of saying “just look it up online!” we say “just Google it!” But how different are results from Google and say a library catalog? To investigate this very simply, I did two different searches. I did a Google search of […]
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Quest for Chocolate
You never really realize how biased your own Google search is on your laptop until you’ve taken a step out of your bubble to compare the results. Everything you do on the internet is watched and recorded. Not only do the cookies you accumulate go towards this cloud of “you info”, but the permissions you […]
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Boston Marathon Bombing Project
The Boston Marathon bombing refers to three explosions that happened in Boston on 15th of April 2013, at 2:50 PM. These bombings occurred on Boylston Street. After the bombing, North Eastern University lunched a subdomain link for the event. The website explores a lot of documents and comments about the bombing from people around the […]