Corinne Hui Yun (Melbourne): Terms of Service on Social Media Sites. Ryan S. Ritter, Jesse Lee Preston, and Ivan Hernandez (Illinois): Happy Tweets: Christians are Happier, More Socially Connected, and Less Analytical Than Atheists on Twitter. Beware Twitter's civility police: Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig on how civility is for tea parties, not the public square — let's stay outraged. Instagram is getting so good at news, it should scare Twitter. Brian Lightbody (Brock): On FaceBook but Not of FaceBook: Using New Social Media Technologies to Promote the Virtues of Jacques Ellul. The Facebook Election: The social network may end TV’s long dominance of American politics — and open the door to a new kind of populism. Peter Kafka on why building a web business built on Facebook is so scary. Jay Rosen on Facebook’s phony claim that “you’re in charge”. Shirley Li on how numbers on Facebook change behavior: The Facebook Demetricator shows we like liking a little too much. Redesigning the social network: There's an artistic vision behind Ello, the latest Facebook competitor to trigger hype and backlash. Is Reddit's policy against self-promotion strangling the site's culture? Ben Branstetter on how Reddit ate the news media. Can Reddit grow up? Efforts by the freewheeling online community to monetize without driving away its 114 million monthly users will require appealing to advertisers without sacrificing values like personal data privacy. Is Reddit broken beyond repair? Aaron Sankin investigates. Timothy B. Lee goes inside the company that rebuilt Digg. The 36 people who run Wikipedia: Stephen Lurie on what the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together. Wikipedia is amazing — but it’s become a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess. Who killed Wikipedia? Virginia Postrel on how a hardened corps of volunteer editors is the only force protecting Wikipedia — they might also be killing it. Ron Horning on how social media is not self-expression.
