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Is Social Media a Cybersecurity Gamechanger?
The Commons Lab today released a new policy memo analyzing the increased potential of social media to exacerbate conflict situations and create cybersecurity threats – a potential “gamechanger” as the...
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More Politicians Are Tweeting. But What Are They Saying?
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Congress and social media have had a rocky relationship. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) had a popular Twitter account, including musings on everything from hitting a deer in...
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NEW POLICY MEMO: Cybersecurity Issues in Social Media and Crowdsourcing
The Commons Lab today released a new policy memo exploring the vulnerabilities facing the widespread use and acceptance of social media and crowdsourcing. This is the second publication in the...
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NEW REPORT: Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management
The growing use of social media and other mass collaboration technologies is opening up new opportunities in disaster management efforts, but is also creating new challenges for policymakers looking...
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Connecting Grassroots to Government Podcast #3: Aiden Riley Eller
Editor’s note: In September 2012, the Commons Lab hosted the Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management workshop. Over two days, we spoke with a number of event participants for a...
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NEW DATE: New Visions for Citizen Science
NEW VISIONS FOR CITIZEN SCIENCE Please note NEW DATE: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 from 1:00 – 5:00 PM EDT Woodrow Wilson Center Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC RSVP to...
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Connecting Grassroots and Government through the 2013 Open Government...
Have you ever wondered what the weather is like on Mars? Now you can find out — Sol, the galaxy’s first interplanetary weather application, integrates weather data collected by the Curiosity Rover on...
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Rise of the Lone Wolves
Check out a fascinating piece by Gabriel Weimann, a fellow with the Wilson Center, looking at the phenomenon of “lone wolf terrorism.” Using the Medium platform to pull together Tweets, video, photos...
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EVENT: New Terrorism Meets New Media
Hamas Advertising on Twitter. Source: Weimann, Gabi 2014 The Internet proves to be a useful instrument for modern terrorists who use it for a wide range of purposes – from recruitment, radicalization...
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How Terrorists Use Social Media: A Timeline
The Wilson Center’s Commons Lab just published an interactive timeline, using TimelineJS by the Knight Lab, on social media and terrorism with the assistance of scholar Gabriel Weimann and other...
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