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Online status and identity guide: keeping audiences apart
An online status and identity guide to keeping audiences apart: context collapse, separate accounts, and what to do when audiences meet.
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Teaching generational digital culture across the gap
A practical guide to generational digital culture: start with what was scarce, avoid the analogies that mislead, and read the questions as a diagnostic.
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Social media view counts: what the number actually includes
Social media statistics explained: what a view can mean, why deduplication decides everything, and how to write a count down without overclaiming.
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The Wayback Machine and US copyright, archiving memes without a takedown
Wayback Machine copyright practice lets US researchers cite frozen meme pages, answer DMCA takedowns and keep evidence when a snapshot disappears.
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Is dead internet theory supported by US platform data?
US data show bots are substantial, not a majority. Meta puts fake accounts at 5 percent. Imperva puts bad bots at 32 percent. Read the proxies before acting.
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Critiques of social media: six families, tests and cases
Critiques of social media sorted into six families, the test for each, the incentive argument that carries the rest, and where the critiques have reached law.
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Six meme archetypes, and why their examples age so quickly
Memes and virality examples described as six archetypes rather than instances, with the fixed part, the variable part and the failure each one runs into.
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Platform timelines platforms: five design levers explained
Platform timelines platforms read through their design levers: forwarding, persistence, identity and feed ordering, with real platform changes as examples.
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Platform timelines updates: how to date what you saw
Platform timelines updates are not single dates: learn the four kinds of dates, how to record what you saw yourself, and why one service is many services.
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Which early social network truly came first, and why does no one agree
Early social networks in three parts: why nobody agrees what came first, how thin the surviving record is, and what that means for anything you read.