Ira P. Robbins (American): What Is the Meaning of “Like”?: The First Amendment Implications of Social-Media Expression. Mudra Mukesh and Dilney Goncalves (IEBS): The Curse of Online Friends: The Detrimental Effects of Online Social Network Usage on Well-Being. From the International Journal of Internet Science, Galit Nimrod (Ben-Gurion): Challenging the Internet Paradox: Online Depression Communities and Well-Being; and Constantin M. Bosancianu (CEU), and Steve Powell and Esad Bratovic (proMENTE): Social Capital and Pro-Social Behavior Online and Offline. Andrea Peterson on the four lamest excuses in MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz. Trial by Twitter: Ariel Levy on the Steubenville rape case online. Should Reddit be blamed for the spreading of a smear? Jay Caspian Kang investigates. Does anything go? Bridget Todd on the rise and fall of a racist corner of Reddit. Is there room for racism on Reddit? Claire Hardaker on Internet trolls: A guide to the different flavours. Star Wars: Tom Vanderbilt on how online review culture is dotted with black holes of bad taste. Exposed: The dark side of the internet, where you can buy drugs, sex and indecent images. Kevin Poulsen on the Secret Service agent who collared cybercrooks by selling them fake IDs. Glenn Greenwald on how the NSA tool XKeyscore collects “nearly everything a user does on the internet”.
