Social media has become a popular source of political information for internet users. At the same time, fake news creators view the platform as conducive because of its low-cost model and ease of access. Many scholars like Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow also argued that people on social networking sites prefer to read and share […]
Graph 1 Source: https://nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Graph.aspx?graphID=171397 The first graph I found contains Twitter users who were either replied to or mentioned in the topic of #Parkland. #Parkland was tied to the shooting tragedy at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2018, that resulted in the death of 17 people. The NodeXL graph […]
Telephone shaped people’s communication systems during wars and their everyday lives. Five decades later, another influential medium was born. As a modern counterpart to the telephone, Facebook changed the way businesses advertised, reshaped people’s news consumption habits, and influenced how people communicated with their families and friends. The well-known Canadian professor of English and philosopher, […]