Why We Shouldn’t Boycott Ask.fm
Ask.fm is not the problem, it is a lack of prosecutions from the police over illegal and offensive material posted online and that parents do not understand the web or social media sufficiently to be able to offer help or guidance.
Should There Be a “Report Abuse” Button on Twitter?
Twitter has come under fire for not currently offering a “report abuse” button on the service, after women’s rights campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez received death threats through the service for her campaign to have women represented on British banknotes.
Raytheon RIOT: A Social Media Spy Kit?
Just how useful are tools such as Raytheon’s RIOT which mine openly accessible social media data from Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare in predicting and preventing future crimes or acts of terrorism?
Power to the Online People [infographic]
Where were you when news of the tsunami hit Japan in 2011? How about when Michael Jackson died? Probably online, according to many experts who claim that social media has become the main media source for hundreds of millions of people.




