Has Social Media Altered Our Ability to Determine If Pictures Have Been Photoshopped?

The Social and Economic Benefits of Women’s Ability To Determine Whether and When to Have Children

n Contemporary studies indicate that teen pregnancy interferes with young women’s ability to graduate from high school and to enroll in and graduate from college. Conversely, planning, delaying and spacing births appears to help women achieve their education and career goals. Delaying a birth can also reduce the gap in pay that typically exists between working mothers and their childless peers ...

Has the Online Discussion Been Manipulated? Quantifying Online Discussion Authenticity within Online Social Media

Online social media (OSM) has a enormous influence in today’s world. Some individuals view OSM as fertile ground for abuse and use it to disseminate misinformation and political propaganda, slander competitors, and spread spam. The crowdturfing industry employs large numbers of bots and human workers to manipulate OSM and misrepresent public opinion. The detection of online discussion topics ma...

Losing My Revolution: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost?

Social media content has grown exponentially in the recent years and the role of social media has evolved from just narrating life events to actually shaping them. In this paper we explore how many resources shared in social media are still available on the live web or in public web archives. By analyzing six different event-centric datasets of resources shared in social media in the period fro...

How selenium has altered our understanding of the genetic code.

Social semantics : how useful has group selection been ?

A greater understanding in evolutionary biology is often obtained by looking at the same problem in different ways (Maynard Smith, 1983). This fact is well established in the field of social evolution, where explanations for behaviours such as cooperation can be carved up in a number of ways, each with their own advantages (Frank, 1998; Sachs et al., 2004; Lehmann & Keller, 2006; West et al., 2...