Archive:facebook
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Transforming Slacktivism to Collective Activism: The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
In recent years, it has become popular for researchers to study why objects go viral. Specifically, academics and business stakeholders have sought to discover how specific videos, images, and songs
Categories: 2014, The Gnovis Blog
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Is Online Lurking So Bad?
I am an online lurker. I regularly browse certain websites with active communities but I don’t comment about how the articles or conversations have affected my thinking. While looking at a friend’s
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog
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Facebook Privacy in the Age of Graph Search
Facebook’s Graph Search extends longstanding debates on Facebook privacy. According to Zoller (2013), “Graph Search allows users to search from the Facebook platform rather than the wider web, which
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog
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Creation Nets and the Future of Social Networks
Since the beginning of the new year, there has been much talk of Facebook’s Graph Search and the company’s attempt to quantify the information goldmine that makes up a social network. Analyzing how in
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog
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Yelp, a not-so-secret community
There is a natural human urge to create communities and connect with each other; the Internet provides a new outlet to satisfy this desire. Online platforms “enable ubiquitous meeting spaces that sat
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog
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Politics and Privacy
With the 2012 election finally over, it seems both inevitable and laughable that 2016 is already being mentioned, and not just by Jon Stewart. At the moment I am not at all interested in what lies ah
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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"Kony" Questioners
At this point it's no secret there are big problems with Kony 2012, a video published in March 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., an organization that “uses film, creativity and social action to end t
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Are you on [insert social network here]? OMG it's amazing.
This time last year I remember that, within the span of about a week, it seemed as though everyone I knew was hooked into the latest gaming/social media fad: Words With Friends. A game played on s
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Two-Step Tweets: Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks
As media effects scholarship has evolved over the decades, media has always been understood to perform an important and influential function in society. Questions of whom media influence, with what e
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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You Are the Ad: The Facebook "Like"
Before I went to see George Clooney’s The Ides of March, I checked the movie’s score at Rotten Tomatoes. Eighty or so percent, I thought. Sounds good. I then noticed some interactive features I didn’
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog