{"id":209,"date":"2012-05-14T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=209"},"modified":"2012-07-09T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T14:57:35","slug":"disruptions-facebooks-real-life-spidey-sense-nytimes-com-12-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/05\/14\/disruptions-facebooks-real-life-spidey-sense-nytimes-com-12-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruptions: Facebook&#8217;s Real-Life &#8216;Spidey Sense&#8217; &#8211; NYTimes.com, 12 May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFacebook has so much power online that they have the ability to buy something at a low price and then make it go high by directing traffic accordingly,\u201d said Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School and a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. \u201cSociologically, this is called the Matthew effect, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.\u201d He notes that the term comes from a line in the Gospel of Matthew. In other words, Facebook can create its future.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/13\/disruptions-facebooks-real-life-spidey-sense\/?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=79224763aa-News_Law_Monday_May_14_20125_14_2012&amp;utm_medium=email\">Disruptions: Facebook&#8217;s Real-Life &#8216;Spidey Sense&#8217; &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFacebook has so much power online that they have the ability to buy something at a low price and then make it go high by directing traffic accordingly,\u201d said Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School and a co-founder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/05\/14\/disruptions-facebooks-real-life-spidey-sense-nytimes-com-12-may-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}