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  • Gizmodo
  • 2021
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Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Other Platforms

Thorough investigation led to the conclusion that bots played a role in the economic disruption of GameStop stocks in early 2021. Essentially, the automated accounts aided in the diffusion of materials promoting the purchase and maintenance of GameStop stocks as a ploy to act as a check on wealthy hedge fund managers who bet that the stock would crash. The wholistic effect of these bots in this specific campaign, and thus a measure of how bots may generally be used to cause economic disruption in online markets through interaction with humans, remains hard to read.

  • Gizmodo
  • 2021
  • 14 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2014
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Interaction Records and Privacy from Parents

Brandy and Tim are two teens who attempt to live normal lives through interacting with their peers through social media platforms. For Brandy, this means using a secret Tumblr account to express herself, since her mother has passwords to all her other accounts and is able to constantly collect data from her daughter’s devices. Tim finds similar comfort in chatting with anonymous friends in an online game chat room. Tim and Brandy’s developing relationship is threatened once both of their parents overstep and violate their children’s privacy and trust.

  • Kinolab
  • 2014
  • 9 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2010
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Facebook Origins and Control Over Photos

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

  • Kinolab
  • 2010
  • 7 min
  • Slate
  • 2019
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Facebook’s Face-ID Database Could Be the Biggest in the World. Yes, It Should Worry Us.

Discussion of Facebook’s massive collection of human faces and their potential impact on society.

  • Slate
  • 2019
  • 13 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2011
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Technological Immersion, Digital Underclasses, and Attention Economies

In this episode, Bing Madsen is one of many citizens who provide power to the digital world through spending each day on a stationery bike, which earns him “merits” to spend on both leisure activities and necessities. These laborers, along with all other classes, are constantly surrounded by screens in which their digital avatars can participate in virtual activities like biking on a road or being in a “live” studio audience. The reality competition show “Hot Shot” is one program streamed on these screens. In this narrative, Bing conspires to grab the attention of the world on stage, proclaiming that the whole digital world is fake and has brainwashed the laborers into providing power while upper classes get more leisure and enjoyment. This eventually lands him with his own talk show, where he recreates his suicide threats for sensational content in exchange for a more lucrative lifestyle.

  • Kinolab
  • 2011
  • 7 min
  • New York Times
  • 2018
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Youtube, The Great Radicalizer

Youtube’s algorithm suggests increasingly radical recommendations to its users, maximising the amount of time they spend on the platform. The tendency toward inflammatory recommendations often leads to political misinformation.

  • New York Times
  • 2018
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