Most of us are used to being able to search for a specific phrase in Google by putting the phrase in “quotation marks”. This is a simple thing to do, and very useful for narrowing down searches. In databases you can use Boolean search terms such as ‘AND’, ‘OR’, etc. These are also mostly self-explanatory […]
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Year: 2018
Moodle Workshop Module Tutorial
This video gives a short introduction to the Moodle Workshop Module, and how it can be used to set up an anonymous peer review exercise for students. Students submit a short written piece, and are then randomly allocated submissions from other students which they have to assess following criteria set by the instructor. I used […]
History of Social Media Influencers
How did social media influencers start? Also known as ‘microcelebrities’, social media influencers are an increasingly important part of the digital marketing landscape – mostly on Instagram and YouTube, but across many other platforms too. Basically, they attract an audience by providing content based on their personal lives and/or interests – and when enough people […]
Facebook is Commercialising our Humanity
Following all the recent interest in Facebook engendered by the revelation of the misuse of users’ personal data (though all the indicators have been around for a while, for example in a very interesting article from January 2017: The Data That Turned the World Upside Down), I was asked by Lens at Monash University to […]
BFM Radio Interviews
I’ve been interviewed on the BFM Evening Edition a couple of times recently – here are the links to the relevant extracts: Cambridge Analytica: Damaging Democracy with Data Video Killed the Radio Star It’s interesting how it works. They will contact me in the early afternoon with some questions and ask if I can comment. […]