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Fighting Extremist Social Media with Social Media
Steve Quigley’s COM class has built SAVE from the ground up as a social media campaign to help prevent extremist groups from recruiting young people online. For many troubled young people, the path to...
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COM Student Takes Part in Ultimate Frisbee Team Feminism Campaign
Jacki Salustro (COM’17) As the sun was setting during a late afternoon practice of the BU men’s and women’s Ultimate Frisbee teams last month, Teddy Kahn (CAS’17), vice president of the men’s team—the...
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The Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media
As principal investigators on a yearlong Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, Juliet Floyd, a CAS professor of philosophy, and James E. Katz, a COM professor of emerging media, will bring together...
View ArticleThe Face of Facebook
Anthony Harrison has a big challenge. As director of corporate media relations for social media giant Facebook, he’s part of a global communications team that represents the company through good times...
View ArticleWhat You Read and Watch Is Changing Media Forever
Like most stories about data science, this one begins with a very big number: 150 million. That’s roughly how many people, worldwide, subscribe to Netflix. And because Netflix knows what all of those...
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Seeing Through the Smoke
Search #swishersweets on Twitter and Instagram and you’ll see hundreds of thousands of posts about the popular flavored cigar brand. On TikTok, thousands of videos show users smoking, singing about...
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Calculating Media Influence
The mosquitoes are fighting—and biting—back. After years of being flooded with insecticides, the tiny, nibbling flies are becoming resistant to our chemical defenses. So scientists are testing an...
View ArticleCOM Researchers Launch New Study of Climate Mis- and Disinformation
Editor’s note (7/26/22): The Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability has replaced the Institute for Sustainable Energy, expanding the institute’s mission beyond energy to a broader scope...
View ArticleReality TV, social media make it hard to discern what’s real
Kathryn Coduto, associate professor, media science, writing in a POV for BU Today. Read the full article
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