Category: Social Media & Networks
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Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
The emergence of social media has changed our world forever. Its presence has impacted our businesses, entertainment industry, politics, social movements, relationships and overall view of the world. Social media has eliminated communication barriers and has paved the way for people to connect, collaborate and share their opinions and creations with anyone who is willing […]
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Social Media in the Business World
Social Media in the Business World There are 2.65 billion social media users globally, and of these 95% of people aged 18-34 follow a brand on social media. My generation has grown up in a society where we turn to social media to tell us what’s going on in the news, what products we should […]
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Employer’s using social media in hiring process: Why do they do it?
Wood, Anna. (2017, November 27). Social media hiring process [photo]. There was a time when Facebook did not exist, and the way to impress your potential employer was to have a well-put together resume with outstanding qualifications. During this time, employers made their hiring decisions based on meeting with the potential employee during an interview […]
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Thinking through the world brain
WHY IT MATTERS WHO OWNS AND GOVERNS OUR GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY If our networked tools for sharing knowledge are free, far reaching, and fast, does it matter who owns and governs them? I’m posting the draft of a chapter of my dissertation on the Humanities Commons in support of the belief that the infrastructure of knowledge production is in fact […]
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HELP! I can’t even edit my own posts…
OK. My very old posts. Posts which I am editing for the first time in ages… But still, why can’t I edit them? First some history The HASTAC site used to allow Full HTML access to all users. Over time, this became a significant security threat so we began filtering HTML tags around 2014. At the time, the Filtered HTML […]
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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. […]