Tag: Facebook

Outnumbered From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives


Free Download David Sumpter, "Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives"
English | ISBN: 147294741X | 2018 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Outnumbered is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes. Algorithms are running our society, and as Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed, we don’t even realize how our data has been used against us. David Sumpter investigates whether mathematics is crossing dangerous lines when it comes to what we can make decisions about.

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Discourse and Identity on Facebook How we use language and multimodal texts to present identity online


Free Download Mariza Georgalou, "Discourse and Identity on Facebook: How we use language and multimodal texts to present identity online "
English | ISBN: 1474289126 | 2017 | 336 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Social network sites are dynamic online socio-cultural arenas which give users ample and unprecedented opportunities for self-presentation through the meshing of language with other semiotic modes. With a focus on Facebook, one of the most widely-used online social network sites, this book brings together ideas and concepts related to language online, multimodality, and identity through five topical issues. These include place, time, profession and education, stance-taking, and privacy.

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