{"id":2640,"date":"2022-12-13T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:01:14","slug":"tech-in-the-news-december-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/2022\/12\/13\/tech-in-the-news-december-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech in the News: December Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2640\" class=\"elementor elementor-2640\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-71d6368 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"71d6368\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b4d37ff\" data-id=\"b4d37ff\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8562868 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8562868\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2641\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/12\/tin300_a.png\" alt=\"Tech in the News, December 2022\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/>In the second edition of Tech in the News which took place during the first week of December, PIT@UMass started an interesting conversation about rethinking social media.\u00a0 Moderated by Dr. Francine Berman, the conversation focused on two pivotal platforms &#8211; TikTok and Twitter.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The session kicked off with Professor Hamed Zamani presenting his perspective on why TikTok is so addictive and providing a breakdown of the underlying factors that have contributed to the growing popularity of the app &#8211; the interactive, dynamic user interface and the behavior tracking algorithms that match content to user interest and its impact on industrializing virality.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2642\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/12\/tin350_B.png\" alt=\"Tech in the News, December 2022\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/>This was followed by a stirring talk by Professor Ethan Zuckerman\u00a0tracing the takeover of\u00a0Twitter by Elon Musk. He stressed on the importance of the platform in terms of its text-based content, asymmetricfollower-following network. Zuckerman also stated that Twitter allows people to tell their stories in front of a globalaudience, thus creating\u00a0 enriching\u00a0 social\u00a0 experiences\u00a0 and\u00a0 expanding\u00a0 the\u00a0 public\u00a0 information\u00a0 sphere.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2643\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/12\/tin350_C.png\" alt=\"Tech in the News, December 2022\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" \/>He expressed concerns surrounding Musk\u2019s declaration of turning Twitter into a \u2018free speech\u2019 space given the negative results that unregulated online spaces have left before. The discussions that followed dwelled into possible solutions to regulating the digital sphere.<\/p><p>Stay tuned for more upcoming Tech in the News events\u00a0 next spring!<\/p><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Written by Harshita Snehi, PIT@UMass Student Assistant<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-65ba8f9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"65ba8f9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-015c83d\" data-id=\"015c83d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0da2b37 elementor-shape-rounded elementor-grid-0 e-grid-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-social-icons\" data-id=\"0da2b37\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"social-icons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-social-icons-wrapper elementor-grid\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-grid-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-icon elementor-social-icon elementor-social-icon-envelope elementor-animation-grow elementor-repeater-item-8b93740\" href=\"mailto:cschweik@umass.edu\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Envelope<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-envelope\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second edition of Tech in the News which took place during the first week of December, PIT@UMass started an interesting conversation about rethinking social media.\u00a0 Moderated by Dr. Francine Berman, the conversation focused on two pivotal platforms &#8211; TikTok and Twitter. 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