Read Schuchardt’s 8 Theses on Christians and Twitter

Dr. Read Schuchardt outlines 8 principles to guide every Christian social media user’s relationship with Twitter.

Popes, Pseudo-Events, Computer Marriage and the Simple Life

In this week’s reading list, we have quite a combination. A murder in Montgomery remains unsolved as the victim’s simple life leaves no social media, email or other electronic footprints for law enforcement to follow. A Florida man is demanding his right to wed his pornography-laden computer. We’ve also got a scholarly love letter to […]

Atheism and Transhumanism, Ethics and Automation

We’ve got a couple articles on ethics and automation this morning, with Aeon Magazine giving an large overview and Singularity Hub looking at robots writing news stories. Michael Sacasas covered this topic for us several weeks ago in his Conscience of a Machine. We’ve also got an article on the ethics of Twitter with a […]

Reading List: December 8

Looking for some good reads on a Sunday afternoon? We’ve got the goods for you: Here’s how The Post covered the ‘grand social experiment’ of the Internet in 1988 – Washington Post “As a cub reporter at The Washington Post, Barton Gellman was assigned to cover an obscure but rapidly growing computer network called the […]

One Fake Tweet Causes Millions in Losses and Gains in Stock Market

USA Today reports: Stocks plunged briefly Tuesday after a fake tweet from the Associated Press’ Twitter account said there had been two explosions at the White House and President Obama was injured. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 128 points in seconds, but quickly recovered when the tweet was found to be a […]

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