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Human Flesh Search Engines
Jeremy Goldkorn explains the Chinese net phenomena of the human flesh search engine. Its where groups of individuals band together often for an on/offline witch hunt to expose and humiliate someone. Although its also been used to reunite families and reveal corruption.
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Plotting the spread of media and other diseases
Dr Robert Smith? (yes the question mark is part of his name). Came to fame when he used a zombie outbreak to model disease spread. He's applying the same technique to look at how content spreads virally.
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Social media and mass hysteria
Here's a link to the case Leroy New York of mass hysteria that some experts have cited as the 1st fully fledged panic spread by social media.
Leroy outbreak of mass hysteria
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BBC Radio 4Mon 4 Jun 2012 16:30 BBC Radio 4
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The Digital Human
Aleks Krotoski charts how digital culture is moulding modern living. Each week join technology...
