Episode 1.01 Massive Emotional Contagion

Facebook's Social (Network) Science, User Responsibility, and Corporate Ethics

Tagged: ethics, social media, technology

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We talk about Facebook’s much-discussed study of user responses to variations in their News Feed: what did Facebook do, exactly? Was it ethical? What responsibilities do users and consumers of different media (social included) have? What responsibilities do companies have to their users?

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