Elon Musk allowing verification badges to simply be bought by anyone is an example of how powerful and misguided trust in logos can be.
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Change management never quite goes according to plan. But it’s hard to figure out if Elon Musk even has a plan.
Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
With the World Cup under way (bringing in more traffic) and more than 1,000 employees having reportedly resigned, concerns for the platform’s future are warranted.
Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter reveals what we like and need from social media.
If Twitter were to go dark, with it would go a valuable source of data as well as a means of sharing information relied on by activists, journalists, public health officials and scientists.
Digital activism can be fruitful if it is followed up by practical and strategic offline actions.
Elon Musk’s new paid verification program resulted in the widespread use of parody accounts by shitposters on the social media platform.
Musk’s autistic traits and history of being bullied might help explain why he appears combative on social media
The country’s reliance on ‘at-will’ employment means that companies face few restrictions when they want to downsize their workforces.
There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
The turmoil at Twitter has many people turning to an alternative, Mastodon. The social media platform does a lot of what Twitter and Facebook do, but there are key differences.
One in seven respondents believed the victims of the Manchester terrorist attack were ‘crisis actors’.
Mastodon is open-source software that enables a decentralized social media network. It operates differently from the corporate-owned social media platforms we have become accustomed to.
With Twitter users considering a relocation to the decentralized social media network Mastodon, there’s an opportunity for the CBC to lead the way in re-imagining online futures for Canadians.
As a growing wave of tech companies announce job cuts, more employees are being informed by email or video call.
It’s not clear what will happen to the safety features that come with Twitter verification.
Thousands of Twitter users are jumping ship – and Mastodon might become their new home. But it’s not a clone of the ‘blue bird site’.
Moderating content is a box that still needs to be ticked.
As of this weekend, users can ‘buy’ a verification badge on Twitter for just US$8. This problematic system will have widespread consequences.
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Head of Centre for Professional and Economic Development, University of Chester
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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