Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014

Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, April 29, 2014

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Hear more about how Twitter is trying to solve its ghost account problem: people who sign up and never tweet. Plus, Janet Vertesi, a sociologist of science and technology at Princeton University, talks about how and why she tried to conceal her pregnancy from the internet, and the consequences of trying to be an anonymous online consumer.

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Hiding pregnancy from the marketing machine

Apr 29, 2014
Is it possible to take your pregnancy off the grid?

Hear more about how Twitter is trying to solve its ghost account problem: people who sign up and never tweet. Plus, Janet Vertesi, a sociologist of science and technology at Princeton University, talks about how and why she tried to conceal her pregnancy from the internet, and the consequences of trying to be an anonymous online consumer.

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