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How quickly things spread

Understanding the spread of infectious diseases in populations is the key to controlling them. If the UK was facing a flu pandemic, how could we measure where the greatest spreading risk comes from? This information could help inform decisions on whether to impose travel restrictions or close schools.

The meaning of emoticons

The emoticons used on Twitter are a language in themselves and are taking on new and often surprising meanings of their own, according to new research.

Tweeting disasters

Social networks like Twitter cannot help prevent disasters, but can quickly correct misinformation resulting from false rumours preventing possible further loss of lives, a leading researcher will tell a public debate on 25th October at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

I'd love to smash the Ritz…

Social psychologist and best-selling author Dr Kevin Dutton, Research Fellow at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, puts the recent riots under the microscope and looks at the way in which low self-esteem, a sense of isolation and an absence of positive role models lead to a volatile cocktail of emotions in young people.

Smartphone art

As mobile phone cameras improve, emerging forms of social media are basing themselves in 'iPhoneography'. While social media is often held up as an example of the increasingly vacuous and self-obsessed nature of society, research into these new networks shows they can encourage creativity, and even provide users with a therapeutic outlet.

Unsociable networks

Silicon Valley-style tech clusters don't just make social networks - they are also supposed to thrive on them. A new study by a University of Cambridge Gates Scholar found otherwise.

Come here often?

A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by University of Cambridge researchers.

Facebook’s precursor

'Commonplace books' were scrapbooks into which people copied their favourite poems and collected together other items - and were used as the basis for an early version of social networking.

New ways to reduce bullying and youth violence

Many children and adolescents suffer physically and mentally from being bullied or physically attacked and threatened by their peers. A conference at Cambridge University will bring together researchers from across Europe to share knowledge about how bullying and youth violence can be prevented more effectively.

Neuro-tweets: #hashtagging the brain

We like to think the human brain is special, something different from other brains and information processing systems, but a Cambridge professor set out to test that assumption - by conducting a live experiment using Twitter.