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Faces of Science: Anne Helmond
How social are social media?
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If you click on a like-button, both on your Facebook page and on the website you just visited a message will appear that you have "liked" the page, at the same time more data is send to Facebook. Anne Helmond does not look at why people click on like-button, but at how Facebook uses these buttons and what the consequences are for example for our privacy.
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Anne Helmond
Anne Helmond is onderzoeker Nieuwe Media bij het Digital Methods Initiative op de afdeling Mediastudies (Universiteit van Amsterdam). Ze studeerde cum laude af op een proefschrift over ‘Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations'. In haar onderzoek richt zij zich op de cross-syndicatie politiek in sociale media en gegevensstromen tussen web platforms.
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Commissioned by KNAW and De Jonge Akademie
Funded by the academic authors of Elsevier Science, supported by Lira Author Fund Reprorecht
Made by: Moira van Dijk 2014
In cooperation with
Camera & editing: Jonathan Massey | Persistent Vision
Music: Daan van West
Graphic design: SproetS
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