Saturday, 15 September 2018

Researching social media

In case you hadn’t noticed it, social media is changing the developed word, and definitely not always in good ways.The tech giants (two of which - Amazon and Apple are now trillion dollar companies) have amassed huge power while remaining remarkably opaque to outside scrutiny. This article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/15/facebook-twitter-social-media-public-discourse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other from The Guardian raises the veil a bit on the opacity of the big social media companies. They have be be accountable and they need to be researched. They resist and this will be the fight of a generation.