"Cambridge becoming social media research hub" by Michael B. Farrell | Globe Staff, July 28, 2012
The world of social media is full of riddles: What is Twitter’s role in the Mexican drug war? How is Facebook altering teen romance? Can we track the spread of the flu through clues left on the Internet?
I'm sure the NSA has.
Such are the kinds of questions occupying some of the Boston area’s brightest minds. Social media is no longer just for sharing photos and updating your status; it has become the stuff of serious scholarship as the Internet serves as a virtual petri dish for studying, in real time, changing attitudes and behaviors....
You know where to get the records, right?
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