How is information and misinformation disseminated on digital social networks? Jens Koed Madsen, a researcher at the Complex Human-Environment Systems Simulation Group (Cohesys) at the University of Oxford, explained the main cognitive biases induced by users and by algorithms in an interview with the publication "Mediation".
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Twitter & Tear Gas - Strengths and Weaknesses of Zeynep Tufekci's Connected Contestation - C&F editions, September 2019 - 340 Pages Social movements around the world are making massive use of digital technologies. Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci has been following for years the social movements that are shaking up the world.
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Ocean ecosystems are in decline. In a new report published at the end of April in the Journal of Marine Sciences of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), marine conservationists and data professionals from IBM reveal new ways in which technology and networks
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It is a highly contagious disease that was thought to have been eradicated by vaccination. Before the vaccine, up to two and a half million people died each year from measles. Thanks to vaccination campaigns, the disease should have disappeared completely. Today, however, there is a health alert all over the world.
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All they have to do is look at the news feed of their favourite social network to feel up to date. A title, a picture, a few lines of introduction are enough. When it comes to information, some people are not satisfied with much. They are even more convinced than those who are going to
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On the occasion of the 9th Day without Facebook, this Thursday 28 February, author Thomas Fauré denounces the technological schizophrenia that keeps Europe happy in front of Facebook, despite the thousand revelations that have been made about it. He claims that at the heart of the Old Continent there are the means to invest in
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The social network Facebook celebrated its 15th birthday on February 4th. The role of the platform in spreading hate speech has been the subject of much debate recently. At the heart of the controversy is Myanmar, where Facebook has been used to coerce hundreds of thousands of Rohingya
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Lately, Facebook has become as clinging as modern art: you either love or hate it. Some of us will use it blindly and unconditionally on a daily basis to publish photos of our recent trips to idyllic places, share memorable moments, even bombard their subscribers with publications on
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The Yellow Vest crisis revealed the role of social networks as a driving force and catalyst for the movement. How to govern in the age of Facebook? While President Macron is trying, by solemnly speaking to the French, to find solutions to the Yellow Vest crisis, a deep gulf seems to have opened up.
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed to bewildered users that Facebook collects and shares the little secrets of our digital lives far beyond what is necessary. Answering the call of the #deletefacebook hashtag, a quarter of French people say they are ready to leave Facebook [1] naively thinking that disappearing from the
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Facebook was brought into the media spotlight during the Cambridge Analytica affair. The scandal showed how the social network was accumulating unprecedented masses of personal data that were then used by pharmacies to target specific audiences and distort, in particular, elections. During the hearings
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Saviez-vous que le 5 février, c’était la Journée des amis ? Selon quel calendrier officiel me demanderez-vous, si vous n’êtes pas connecté à Facebook. Si vous l’êtes, vous savez donc qu’en ouvrant votre application, voici ce qui vous a sauté aux yeux : En tête de page Facebook. Merci d’être là pour vos
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From morning to night, we are confronted with algorithms. But this exposure is not without danger. Their influence on our political opinions, our moods or our choices is proven. Far from being neutral, algorithms make the value judgements of their developers, and subject us to them.
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C‘est malheureusement désormais une habitude. Après chaque attentat, on apprend que les terroristes s’étaient soit rencontrés, soit documentés, soit coordonnés, soit embrigadés par l’intermédiaire des réseaux sociaux. Après le dernier attentat de Londres, la première ministre britannique Theresa May s’est empressée de désigner les géants du web, quant au Président
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What have been the evolutions of social media since 2015? The Hootsuite Social Media Barometer - 2017 Edition presents a new assessment of the use of social media within French companies. Social media have become a part of the life of consumers and of the
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Suréquipés, sur-connectés, multi-réseaux, multi-comptes et multi-personae, les 11-13 ans occupent déjà clandestinement les réseaux de leurs aînés. Cette nouvelle génération post digital natives est née avec des réseaux sociaux plein la tête et avec un smartphone greffé à la main. Bienvenue dans le monde des #BornSocial. L’adoubement par le smartphone
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C’est la numéro 2 de Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, qui s’est déplacée en personne pour annoncer la bonne nouvelle : le géant des réseaux sociaux va investir dans des startups françaises spécialistes des données individuelles, reconnaissant ainsi le talent de notre pays dans le digital. Cocorico ! Une annonce à quelques millions de
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"How do you find out? "This is the question Médiamétrie asked more than 3,000 French people at the beginning of 2016* as part of the Actu 24/7 survey. The first wave of the survey was carried out at the end of 2013. The French are still "addicted" to information and
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Altran France, leader du conseil en innovation et ingénierie avancée, mais aussi organisme de formation agréé, va participer à la création d’une Chaire « Big Data for Customer Experience » et va parrainer les 700 étudiants de la promotion 2018 du Groupe Léonard de Vinci (EMLV, ESILV et IIM). Altran France
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Les faits divers liés à la cybercriminalité sont toujours plus nombreux et variés. En atteste le vol des données personnelles de 112 000 policiers récemment commis par un employé d’une société sous-traitante de la Mutuelle générale de la police. Ces données étaient stockées sur un « cloud » à l’accès
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