Social network sites now have 6.5% of all traffic on the web, and is still growing rapidly, Hitwise reports. Here’s the distribution between sites:
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I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, and Professor of Digital Culture. Blogging here since October 2000.
Social network sites now have 6.5% of all traffic on the web, and is still growing rapidly, Hitwise reports. Here’s the distribution between sites:
(via Micropersuasion)
Whenever I give talks about ChatGPT and LLMs, whether to ninth graders, businesses or journalists, I meet people who are hungry for information, who really want to understand this new technology. I’ve interpreted this as interest and a need to understand – […]
Having your own words processed and restated can help you improve your thinking and your writing. That’s one reason why talking with someone about your ideas can help you clarify your thoughts. ChatGPT is certainly no replacement for a knowledgable friend or colleague, […]
Like the rest of the internet, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot released by OpenAI, and I’ve been fascinated by how much it does well and how it still gets a lot wrong. ChatGPT is a foundation model, that […]
A few weeks ago Meta released Galactica, a language model that generates scientific papers based on a prompt you type in. They put it online and invited people to try it out, but had to remove it after just three days after […]
This spring when I was learning R, I came across a paper by Anders Kristian Munk, Asger Gehrt Olesen and Mathieu Jacomy about using machine learning in anthropology – not to classify big data, as machine learning is often used, but to […]
I’m co-organising a preconfernece workshop for AoIR2022 in Dublin today with Annette Markham and MaryElizabeth Luka today, and I’m going to show a few of the ways I’ve engaged with new digital platforms and genres over the years. This is a key […]
Scullyoslo
Interesting stats. At my high school (Norwegian), Facebook is all the craze nowadays. As all our students are issued laptops, this fad (latest in a long list) functions as a mentail drain during classes, subsuming their attention. As the laptops are owned by the school and to be used for school purposes manily, I cannot see why Facebook should not be “banned” during school hours?
Linn
Huh – I wonder what they define as social networking sites? Do they include flickr? And I’m sure Habbo Hotel would set the numbers up higher as well. What are the definition boundaries of a social networking site? Hmm
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[…] Äh ja – ok… Also Social Networking war das Thema. Den ganzen Hype möchte ich natürlich nicht verpassen – schließlich endet fast 7% des Webverkehrs auf solchen Seiten. Dummerweise wissen wir aber alle, dass Informatiker alles Kellerkinder ohne Freunde sind, deswegen präsentiere ich hier mein Antisocial-Network: […]