20 March 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Peekaboo! British Scientists are Watching You!

Peekaboo! British Scientists are Watching You!

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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P-U! The RIA translator screwed up again! Британские ученые наблюдают за тобой isn’t Facebook “Likes” Reveal a Lot, Study Finds. The latter is a new title, it isn’t a translation of what Yolkin was trying to convey. Yolkin’s tongue-in-cheek raffishness is completely lost… and one CAN convey it in English. It’s one of Yolkin’s earthy and leering worldly-wise observations… the translator completely trashed it. I hope that they’re GONE… and soon…

BMD

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British IT wonks have developed an algorithm that allows one to determine the sex, age, and other information about Facebook users who utilise the “like” function with uncanny accurately. That inspired this cartoon from Sergei Yolkin. What you like on Facebook says a lot about you and can even give away your secrets, according to a Cambridge University study published online. In the study, researchers revealed how they were able to guess accurately the gender, personality type, IQ, political views, and the sexual orientation of individuals based on what these 58,000 users of the popular social network decided to “like” on Facebook.

12 March 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130312/926908820.html

http://en.ria.ru/cartoons/20130313/179981488/Facebook-Likes-Reveal-a-Lot-Study-Finds.html

20 August 2012. RIA-Novosti Infographics. Roles of Group Members in Social Networks

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19 August 2012

RIA-Novosti

http://en.ria.ru/infographics/20120819/175186540.html

12 April 2012. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Now, You’re in a Social Network: Facebook Addiction

Now, You’re in a Social Network: Facebook Addiction

Sergei Yolkin

2012

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The authors of an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pointed up that the spread of social networking site Facebook isn’t subject to the traditional “biological” understanding of contagion, for the probability of joining the network isn’t determined by the number already “infected” in the environment and its heterogeneity.

3 April 2012

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20120403/616419312.html?byauthor=1