Tag: Platform design

• Shared more, liked less?

  

  Facebook’s 2018 News Feed change did not cut the engagement European parties got. It changed what their audiences did: they shared more.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Europe, Facebook, Facebook reactions, Online engagement, Platform design, Social Media

• Short explainer: Do echo chambers (filter bubbles) exist on social media?

  

  Do echo chambers and filter bubbles really exist on social media? What the evidence says about personalisation and polarisation.

  Tristan Hotham

  Short explainers

  Facebook, Internet, Platform design, Social Media

• Short explainer: What will the world of social media look like in 30 years?

  

  It is difficult to predict exactly what social media will look like in 30 years, but in this short explainer I try.

  Tristan Hotham

  Short explainers

  Internet, Platform design, Science and technology, Social Media, technology

• Innovation via desperation: Twitter Fleets

  

  Twitter Fleets are not necessary, nobody on the network was calling for them, and their implementation shows that Twitter has more interest in following the crowd than genuinely innovating. Instead, what we now have is social networks innovating from a position of desperation, focused on ‘keeping up with the Joneses’.

  Tristan Hotham

  Politics

  Internet, Platform design, Science and technology, Social Media, technology

• I was on Sky News talking with Colin Brazier about Facebook

  

  I was asked on to talk about Facebook’s new Voter Information Center and where the line should be drawn on dangerous content.

  Tristan Hotham

  Politics

  elections, Facebook, Media appearances, Platform design, Social Media