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Data Mining and Facebook Graph Search
If you haven’t fled Facebook for Google+ or abandoned social networks entirely, you probably–like me–have a lot invested in the platform. A new feature is in beta on Facebook: Graph Search. If you get...
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Facebooking the Past
[Lucinda Matthews-Jones is a lecturer in history at Liverpool John Moore (UK), where she teaches nineteenth-century British History. Details of her research can be found on her academia.edu profile....
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Using Facebook and Tumblr to Engage Students
[This is a guest post by Carol Holstead and Doug Ward. Carol Holstead is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Kansas. She currently teaches visual storytelling, magazine writing...
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Weekend Reading: The DH Summer Edition
The semester is over! Grades have been turned in, the weather is beautiful, possibilities are endless. It’s the perfect time to think about beginning summer projects, and to read up on the digital...
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Weekend Reading: The Rise of the Machines Edition
We at ProfHacker like books. Apparently so do many of you. The New York Times ran an article earlier this week about the “Allure of the print book.” Esquire followed with “The Revenge of the Printed...
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A Good Time to Check Your Social Media Privacy Settings
Over at the New York Times “Bits” blog, Nick Bilton reminds us that we should review “who has access to [our] social accounts” from time to time. Services like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn...
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Weekend Reading: August & Everything After Edition
As summer, for many of us, speeds towards its inevitable end, I am reminded of the ebb and flow that marks this time of year: the daylight has begun waning sooner, and our daily habits and patterns...
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Ello and Academic Social Networks
If you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook lately, you might have seen the first apparent signs of a migration, with users announcing their new account names on the currently invitation-only social network...
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What Does Facebook Think It Knows About You?
Audrey Watters shared this link to a ProPublica Series, Machine Bias, with a post on understanding Facebook and all that they know about us. I was particularly interested in the Chrome plugin that...
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Stop The Spread of Fake News
Mark Zuckerburg might think that fake news on Facebook didn’t sway the election, but Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci (and many others) aren’t buying it. In a piece for the New York Times (where she...
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Some Guidelines for Using Twitter
There’s a lot of ambivalence about social media these days, and not just because of Russian bots. Every year makes it a little clearer that Twitter and Facebook are probably a little more interested...
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See What Facebook (Thinks It) Knows About You
Today offered a vivid reminder that social networks are (also) surveillance machines, as SnapChat published heatmap of students participating in National Walkout Day. And, in general, as we’ve come to...
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Weekend Reading: Cambridge Analytica/Facebook Edition
It seems like only yesterday (ok, last week) that Jason was writing about Facebook and what it knows about us. That was before this weekend’s exposés about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook taking all...
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Firefox Add-On Protects Against (Most) Facebook Tracking
In December, frustrated with Chrome’s bloat and Google’s constant hoovering of data, Ryan recommended giving the newest version of Firefox, the so-called Firefox Quantum browser, a try. It uses less...
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Get Back Some Online Privacy with Facebook Container
Facebook is everywhere in the news recently, and none of it is good. Many people are debating whether or not to #DeleteFacebook, while others argue that move may be self-defeating. For those who don’t...
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