Buzzfeed Wants to Use Facebook for Political Polling: What Could Go Wrong?

Buzzfeed Wants to Use Facebook for Political Polling: What Could Go Wrong?

May require another article that gives some more info about sentiment analysis.

Facebook rolls out new tools to help prevent suicides

Facebook rolls out new tools to help prevent suicides

Good for discussion of a few articles about Facebook's impact

Facebook's Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty

The power of social media and algorithms. Discuss how to know if a post has good or bad connotations.

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/30/facebook-apologise-year-in-review-algorithm?CMP=share_btn_fb

The Making of Facebook's Graph Search

The Making of Facebook's Graph Search

since the Facebook NewsFeed article is getting fairly dated...

Facebook's Algorithms

The last article I had was from 2007.  This article is from Nov 2012:
News Feed, EdgeRank and page posts: what’s really going on with Facebook?

To discuss with class

• How are some of the algorithms implemented?
• What are some of the non-technical challenges that Facebook faces?  How do they attempt to balance the solutions to these challenges?

Computer Science's Sputnik Moment

From the New York Times: Computer Science's Sputnik Moment? I had the students read the overview and three opinions and say which they agreed with and which they didn't. The opinions give students a variety of perspectives and things to think about. I was a little surprised by how interesting the students found this, since the articles were "just" opinions.

Facebook and Privacy

Read "A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103759.html