Some 30 American universities have partnered with Facebook, yet most are keeping schtum on the details. By consulting with Facebook, Washington, D.C.-based publication Inside Higher Ed uncovered that the institutions have signed up to its Sponsored Academic Research Agreement. Beginning in late 2016, 17 institutions joined ...

Emails shown to various UK media outlets have revealed an acrimonious history between Dr Aleksandr Kogan – the Cambridge University academic at the centre of the Cambridge Analytica Facebook data leak scandal – and his university colleagues. The Guardian and The Financial ...

UTS hired a suitably zeitgeisty ‘thinkfluencer’ to launch its Centre for Media Transition: Jeff Jarvis, a podcast host with a parody Twitter account. Though he is many other things, too: not least, the director of the Tow-Knight Centre for Entrepreneurial ...