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Look, I want to love this world as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive and know it.
We often deploy the phrase “it went viral” to describe our online murmurations. It’s a deceptive phrase that eliminates the how and thus absolves the participants of all responsibility. A rumor does not simply spread — it spreads because we spread it, even if the system is designed to facilitate capturing attention and to encourage that spread.
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds | NOEMA
Renée DiResta
Quercia previously helped develop “Chatty Maps” and “Smelly Maps” of city sounds and odors by scraping data from social media. The latter project found strong correlations between people’s olfactory perceptions and more conventional air-quality indicators. With GoGreenRoutes, he’ll be using wearable technologies to assess whether design improvements to new and existing green spaces have the predicted (and desired) impact on people’s well-being.
Why Sounds and Smells Are as Vital to Cities as the Sights
Jennifer Hattam
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