The Future of Big Data
While many see promise in the future of data analysis, some fear that work with gigantic stores of information could lead to privacy abuses and mistaken forecasts
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
While many see promise in the future of data analysis, some fear that work with gigantic stores of information could lead to privacy abuses and mistaken forecasts
Corporate responsibility: How far will tech firms go in helping repressive regimes?
18% of users have shunned “friends” who have different ideas and 16% have found friends whose beliefs match their own
Those who are active in church, religious, or spiritual organizations are often more deeply involved in their communities than those who are not members of such groups.
As mobile, social tools spread throughout the population, people are connecting with each other. Why not harness those tools for health?
85% of the adults who use social media report that people are usually kind on the sites. At the same time, 49% have witnessed mean and offensive behavior and they usually respond by ignoring it.
Why mobile phone users texted millions of dollars in aid to Haiti earthquake relief and how they got their friends to do the same
The effect of Facebook “power users” on everybody else
Lee Rainie gave a keynote address that looked at people’s evolving use of the internet and mobile technologies and their attitudes about the role of the internet in their lives and the wider world.
Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done – lend a hand, lend an ear, lend advice – but at internet speed and at internet scale.
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