Category: Social Media

• Cleggmania 2.0 – Facebook has hired the ex-deputy prime minister and former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg as their head of global affairs and communications.

  Akin to the shift from Web 1.0 to 2.0, Clegg like the web has reinvented himself. Today he is embarking on a new journey to be the go-between for a mega corporation and fractious mega governments. It is a genuine challenge and a job that is difficult to define, however although problematic, Clegg has a…

  Tristan Hotham

  October 25, 2018

  Social Media

• Facebook risks starting a war on knowledge

  

  Facebook is closing its doors to researchers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The latest casualty is the app Netvizz, a research tool used by hundreds of academics to gather public Facebook data, that the social network has recently banned. The app has gathered more than 300 academic citations and has been used to produce studies on everything…

  Tristan Hotham

  September 6, 2018

  Data Access, Facebook, Politics, Research, Social Media

• Facebook is restricting search results.

  

  Last year, the capacities of modern technology allowed me to research my great grandfather’s role in World War I. Sadly my investigation reached an impasse. The records of his service were destroyed in September 1940 when a German incendiary bomb landed on the War Office’s Arnside Street depot in London. Now 78 years on, I have been…

  Tristan Hotham

  April 11, 2018

  Data Access, Facebook, Politics, Research, Social Media