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Reference and Instruction Librarian – Hailley Fargo [Note – this is only a small portion of knowledge, links and resources offered via this LibGuide – thanks to Pete Weiss for the link] – “Welcome & how to use this guide. After two years of campaigning, debates, and media coverage, Donald Trump was elected the 45th …
News release: “Consumer Watchdog and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission charging that Google violated the law and an earlier consent agreement when it forced a change in its privacy policy on users in a highly deceptive manner, without meaningful notice and consent. The Internet giant’s action, taken on …
The impact of appearance comparisons made through social media, traditional media, and in person in women’s everyday lives [full text PDF]. Jasmine Fardoulya, Rebecca T. Pinkus,Lenny R. Vartanian. School of Psychology, UNSW Australia, Sydney, New South Wales 205; Australia School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. Body Image 20 (2017) …
The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz, McKenzie Funk, NY Times, Nov. 19, 2016 [Commentary/Op-Ed] “For several years, a data firm eventually hired by the Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, has been using Facebook as a tool to build psychological profiles that represent some 230 million adult Americans. A spinoff of a British consulting company and …
Washington Post: “Are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed that head of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions to the debate? Weigel wrote a whole post about the issue — but people who just click through to the link see only Trump’s claim, and none of the context. We made …
Sethi, Subrat Kumar and Paramita, Saswati, Network Technology Trend for Next-Generation Wireless Communication (December 14, 2016). The IUP Journal of Telecommunications, Vol. VIII, No. 2, May 2016, pp. 12-24. Available for download at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2885207 “The high-rise demand for wireless communication and its customized services has experienced tremendous growth over the last decades. This growth …
“BeSpacific NEW, Top 100 Blawgs: “No one better has her finger on the pulse of the legal information world than Sabrina Pacifici, law librarian and author of the blog BeSpacific,” writes blogger Robert Ambrogi. “Launched in 2002, BeSpacific is one of the longest-running legal blogs and, remarkably, Sabrina seems more prolific today than ever. She …
CRS INSIGHT The Trump-Tsai Call and the United States’ “Unofficial” Relationship with Taiwan, December 8, 2016 (IN10620). Susan V. Lawrence, Specialist in Asian Affairs. “President-elect Donald J. Trump’s telephone call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on December 2, 2016, and subsequent Tweets, broke precedent. No previous U.S. president or president-elect is known to have spoken …
“As part of its web archiving program (https://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/), the Library of Congress is harvesting the Twitter account of Donald J. Trump as part of a collection for the 2016 election. The Library of Congress anticipates continuing to harvest this Twitter account if President Elect Trump continues to use it in addition to, or perhaps instead …
“A new Pew Research Center survey finds that, for the most part, the large majority of Americans do not feel that information overload is a problem for them. Some 20% say they feel overloaded by information, a decline from the 27% figure from a decade ago, while 77% say they like having so much information …
Follow up to previous posting, Analysis of some of what President Elect is Reading – “Fake news headlines fool American adults about 75% of the time, according to a large-scale new survey conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs for BuzzFeed News. The survey also found that people who cite Facebook as a major source of news …
BuzzFeed News analyzed all the links Donald Trump tweeted since he launched his presidential campaign to determine where the president-elect gets his news. “…To better understand Trump’s media consumption, BuzzFeed News turned to the president-elect’s largest source of public proclamations and shared news: Twitter. While Trump’s media consumption and methods appear opaque and unconventional, the …
