October 20, 2023 | This opinion piece by Taylor Owen talks about the reasoning behind why he decided to take a break from X, formerly Twitter, a platform he has been using as a gateway to information for over a decade.聽
He said "the platform is now broken. Where it once filtered valuable information about the world in a timely manner, it is now calibrated to anger and extremes under the ownership of a spiteful billionaire clearly caught in an ideological rabbit hole."
November 9, 2022 | Professor Tyler Owen weighed in the coming bill, saying聽Canada should look at how other jurisdictions聽have handled Musk鈥檚 鈥渃onvulsions.鈥� For example, the European Union has passed a Digital Services Act last summer that would require tech giants to monitor their platforms for harmful content.
In an interview with CBC Radio, Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen鈥攚ho leads the School's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy鈥攐pined on the role regulation can play in safeguarding free speech and online safety.
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Elon Musk has sealed a deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion US. The move comes after the richest man in the world started buying shares in the company in March, complaining that the social media network wasn't doing enough to ensure free speech. The company rebuffed his advances for weeks before the two sides struck a deal over the weekend that was made official on April 25. ()听
April 27, 2022 |聽Taylor Owen聽and聽Supriya Dwivedi of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy write that Elon Musk's recent purchase of Twitter might strengthen the democratic governance that social media companies have fought against.
Misinformation about COVID-19 is spreading from the United States into Canada, undermining efforts to mitigate the pandemic. A led by 香蕉视频 shows that Canadians who use social media are more likely to consume this misinformation, embrace false beliefs about COVID-19, and subsequently spread them.
A new study led by researchers at 香蕉视频 finds that people who get their news from social media are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19. Those that consume more traditional news media have fewer misperceptions and are more likely to follow public health recommendations like social distancing.
By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
Research uncovers the inherently hierarchical nature of social media
Dr. Nathan Hall,聽professor with the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology聽and director of the , has written an article in 聽about his parody Twitter account, .
Qui sont les 50 professeurs de management les plus pertinents sur Twitter ? Pas 茅vident de dresser une telle liste. L鈥橝m茅ricain David Burkus, auteur, professeur et blogueur sp茅cialis茅 en management a plong茅.
On the LDRLB podcast (), we draw much of our content from the research and writings of the world鈥檚 top professors. Most are from business schools, others from a variety of fields relevant to leading organizations.聽
With 230 million users, Twitter has become a global force in social media. 聽And not just in English.
