Taxes done?
Time for some real discussion! My post explores how we can move beyond superficial engagement and foster more constructive online dialogues.
Check out the full post here: zhach.news/beyond-the-like-button/
I'd love to hear your thoughts. How do we create a better online experience? What role do platforms, users, and educators play? Let's discuss in the comments! #onlinediscussion #civility #digitalliteracy #socialmedia
University of Michigan: Tweeted metaphors shape views about immigration. “People with strong political views about immigration can wield significant influence by crafting tweets laden with metaphors, shaping how others grasp this hotly contested issue.”
PsyPost: Hostile tweets linked to upbringing and legal troubles, study finds. “By linking official government records to the online activity of Danish Twitter users, the researchers found that individuals with numerous criminal verdicts, more time spent in foster care, better performance in primary school, and higher childhood socioeconomic status tended to be more hostile in their social […]
University of Arkansas: Study Finds Twitter Banter With Competitors Good for Product Launch. “The degree to which social media engagement translates into sales for businesses has been an open question. In many cases, it can be hard to measure. However, a new study established that engaging in a little banter with rival brands over X (formerly Twitter) helped drive in-store visits, […]
National Library of Finland: Online discussions on forests preserved in the Finnish Web Archive. “For a long time, public discussion on forests has been marked by the issue of defining limits for the economic exploitation of Finnish forests. The National Library of Finland has preserved forest-focused discussions on the internet spanning several years.”
Pivot to AI: Forum admin’s madness, AI edition: Physics Forums fills with generated slop. “The listed poster, ravenprp, has 2,891 posts ‘from three years before the account was created to a year after the account was last logged into.’ But a 2019 archive lists only 74 posts — all apparently from an electrical engineering student, before the site filled with slop in their name. [Physics […]
