Category: Society and Culture
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Collected quotes, 4 of n
He had so much to give—stories, reflection, engagement—that somehow none of us ever noticed just how much he was withholding. He could love everybody on the terms on which they needed to be loved, give everybody what they needed to receive; and so, in the end, none of us really knew him. I’ve come to…
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Mapping happiness with ggplot2 in R
I’ve been trying to get back into the habit of coding with R every day, with the goal of compiling a better project portfolio (and reviving my GitHub). This means looking for projects to work on and figuring out where to get the data. One hurdle: Tidying and transforming data has always been a bit…
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Basic analysis of Twitter takedown data
Earlier this month, political analyst Amal Sinha tweeted some preliminary analyses of Twitter data about false accounts / bots: Some background: On 12th June, Twitter released new datasets that compiled anonymised data from accounts that seem to be linked to information operations run by the Chinese (PRC), Russian, and Turkish states. These accounts have since…
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Redefining media dynamics in the age of social media*
https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/1223502667823140864 In the days leading up to Brexit Day, Boris Johnson broke “with long-standing tradition” and chose to keep broadcasters from recording his message. Instead, as Jon Williams from Ireland’s national broadcasting service observed above, the PM used social media as his primary channel for sending the message out. Now, Johnson hasn’t had the friendliest relationship with…
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Collected quotes, 2 of n
Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or…
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Logged writing
Lately, there’s been some buzz about reviving the practice of blogging. Warren Ellis has posted about it, as has Chuck Wendig, and a bunch of other people, I’m sure. There seems to be a growing collective awareness of how ephemeral social media can be, and how devastating that can be when these social media platforms…
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