Thank God for Facebook: When Platforms Proselytize
The following is an excerpt from a post by David Talbot that appeared on MIT Technology Review. You can read the article in its entirety here. “Thank God for Facebook,” the liver transplant surgeon Andrew Cameron said earlier this week at a conference about behavioral economics and social media at Harvard Law School. Cameron directs transplants at [...]
Is Facebook a Fad? Will Our Grandchildren Tweet?
In today’s New York Times Room for Debate forum, Morra was asked to respond to the following question. You can read her full response here. Social media have changed the way people interact: young women in India protect their marriageability by being discreet on Facebook, while in the U.S. family members often feel the sting of learning about estranged loved ones through [...]
Face It: Facebook Needs Women on its Board
This past February, Facebook put an end to its will-they-or-won’t-they hypothesizing about its initial public offering. Included in its S-1 filing is a list of risk factors investors should beware of before buying stock in the company. A loss of users to other social networking sites like Google+, a loss of advertisers, user privacy breakdowns, [...]
