聽October 14, 2021 | In this opinion piece, Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen,聽former Supreme Court chief justice聽Beverley McLachlin, and聽chair of the Canadian Citizens' Assembly on Democratic Expression, Peter MacLeod argue that聽the latest Facebook controversy surrounding the testimony by Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen has the potential to聽change the debate about regulating social media.聽They also聽explain聽why the
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Published on: 15 Oct 2021
Facebook and Facebook-owned apps Instagram and WhatsApp were up and running again late Monday after being hit by an outage that affected users around the world. The social media giant said the disruption to network traffic "had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt." It said there is no evidence that user data was comprised. It was the largest such outage ever tracked by the web monitoring group Downdetector, which collates complaints about web outages.
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Published on: 6 Oct 2021
Former U.S. President Donald Trump won't return to Facebook 鈥� at least not yet. Four months after Facebook suspended Trump's accounts for inciting violence that led to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the company's quasi-independent oversight board upheld the bans. But it told Facebook to specify how long they would last, saying that its "indefinite" ban on the former president was unreasonable. The ruling, which gives Facebook six months to comply, effectively postpones any possible Trump reinstatement and puts the onus for that decision squarely back on the company.
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Published on: 10 May 2021
Misinformation about COVID-19 is spreading from the United States into Canada, undermining efforts to mitigate the pandemic. A led by 91黑料网 shows that Canadians who use social media are more likely to consume this misinformation, embrace false beliefs about COVID-19, and subsequently spread them.
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Published on: 6 Apr 2021
Can combining deep learning (DL)鈥� a subfield of artificial intelligence鈥� with social network analysis (SNA), make social media contributions about extreme weather events a useful tool for crisis managers, first responders and government scientists? An interdisciplinary team of 91黑料网 researchers has brought these tools to the forefront in an effort to understand and manage extreme weather events.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2021
A new study led by researchers at 91黑料网 finds that people who get their news from social media are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19. Those that consume more traditional news media have fewer misperceptions and are more likely to follow public health recommendations like social distancing.
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Published on: 29 Jul 2020
By Katherine Gombay, 91黑料网 Newsroom
Research uncovers the inherently hierarchical nature of social media
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Published on: 18 May 2016
A majority of Canadian mothers now rely on social media platforms to both discover and buy products, a new report by Mintel suggests.
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Published on: 13 Aug 2015
Richard Pag茅 managed to stand out among his fellow alumni graduating from 91黑料网鈥檚 School of Continuing Studies with the class of 2015. How did he do it? By posting the following update on LinkedIn: 鈥淭oday is the day that I obtain my Graduate Certificate in Marketing from 91黑料网 School of Continuing Studies.鈥�
Read more on聽, the School of Continuing Studies' newsletter.
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Published on: 15 Jul 2015
The Globe鈥檚 roundup of research from business schools.
... Social media efforts prove good for a firm鈥檚 bottom line
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Published on: 16 Feb 2015
Written by Estelle Metayer
This New Year鈥檚 Eve, as you celebrate with friends and reflect on a resolution to make, why not commit to launching yourself into the social media world?
Read full article: , December 21, 2014
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Published on: 20 Jan 2015
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网, talking management for The Globe and Mail. Today, I am delighted to speak to Mitch Joel, who is the president of Twist Image, one of the top digital marketing firms in the world.
Read full transcript:聽, December , 2014
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Published on: 22 Dec 2014
A growing number of academic researchers are mining social media data to learn about both online and offline human behaviour. In recent years, studies have claimed the ability to predict everything from summer blockbusters to fluctuations in the stock market.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2014
There鈥檚 no doubt about it: for many of us, the 鈥渢raditional workplace鈥� is a thing of the past. With the shift into digital 鈥� whether it鈥檚 telecommuting or starting a business 鈥� one thing is certain: we鈥檙e spending less time in the office elevator. And with that, fewer opportunities to get in front of the boss, chat up that potential client in the elevator, or wax poetic on the subtleties of Return On Assets to the CFO.
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Published on: 27 Jun 2014
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