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Articles Tagged: Social engineering (social sciences)

Articles & Features

SECTION: Features

The Role of AI Agents for Online Information Disorders

The 2025 World Economic Forum has identified AI-generated misinformation and disinformation as the most urgent short-term global risks. LLM-powered agents can exacerbate these issues, amplifying the spread of convincing false narratives and undermining public trust.

By Francesco Pierri, June 2025

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DEPARTMENT: Pointers

The Political Ramifications of Social Media

By XRDS Staff, June 2025

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SECTION: Features

What Makes Wearable Technologies Socially Acceptable?

Novel wearable computing devices challenge our perception of what is socially acceptable. Research in human-computer interaction asks, "What makes a wearable socially acceptable?" and provides insights that may help designers and developers design for social acceptability.

By Marion Koelle, January 2023

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Global cultures and computing

COLUMN: INIT

Global cultures and computing

By Lynn Kirabo, November 2019

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Computer scientists in action: Anja Bechman, data science

SECTION: Features

Computer scientists in action: Anja Bechman, data science

By Anja Bechmann, October 2018

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