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Mathieu Plourde

Student wrongly tied to Boston bombings found dead - 0 views

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    After the April 15 bombings of the Boston Marathon, crowdsourcing groups drawing upon photos released by the FBI of a suspect erroneously reported via Reddit, a social news website, that the person in a baseball cap strongly resembled the missing student. At one point, Tripathi's name landed on the Twitter top trends list.
Mathieu Plourde

On Naming Names and Calling Out Trolls - 1 views

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    I have told her to name names. I'm not sure it'll have much of an impact, but just as the Reddit community now must deal with the increased scrutiny on its machinations and culture, I'd hope that a little more transparency and openness about academia's own culture will do it a lot of good.
Pat Sine

danah boyd | apophenia » Truth, Lies, and 'Doxxing': The Real Moral of the Ga... - 1 views

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    "Unmasking as a Way to Regulate Social Norms"
Mathieu Plourde

Nasty LinkedIn rejection goes viral - 0 views

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    "Blazek's response to an e-mail and LinkedIn request from Diana Mekota, a 26-year-old planning to move to Cleveland this summer, has made the rounds on Reddit, Buzzfeed and other viral hotspots after Mekota posted it to her Imgur account. And the resulting backlash is yet another cautionary tale about how posting something mean-spirited online can come back to haunt you in the social media age."
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