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Twitter Revealed Epidemic Two Weeks Before Health Officials [STUDY]

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Twitter Revealed Epidemic Two Weeks Before Health Officials [STUDY]
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:35 PMKate Freeman
Health providers have suspected for some time that social media might be an early indicator of an epidemic. Now they have proof. In particular, a new report shows that Twitter provided an early account of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti....



How Technological Justice Can Fight Global Poverty
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:36 PMSimon Trace
Human development has gone hand-in-hand with technical change. Technology (defined for these purposes as both knowledge and tools) enables people to achieve well-being with less effort and drudgery, or at lower cost and with fewer resources....



The Future of History Is on Facebook [POLL]
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:31 PMSam Laird
When University of Nevada librarian Donnelyn Curtis set up fictitious Facebook accounts for two students from the 1910s, she was just trying to help local history become "a little more relevant" for students. But the profiles have gone viral, and...



 
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