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Social Media-- More Profoundly Impactful Than You Think

The worst thing I can think of in terms of the impact of social media on society is portrayed in the short film (above) by Werner Herzog, "From One Second To The Next."A study by Joseph DiGrazia, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen and Fabio Rojas at the University of Indiana illustrates how Twitter conversations can be used to predict election outcomes, whether they are determiniative or not.