The dating game that went viral
Jessica Walsh and Tim Goodman, who turned a relationship experiment into the hit blog 40 Days of Dating, contemplate movie stardom, writes Hermione Hoby
Briton lead suspect after US Central Command’s Twitter account is hacked
Junaid Hussain, who spent time in prison for accessing Tony Blair’s address book, believed to be in Syria and aligned to Isis
US Central Command Twitter account hacked to read ‘I love you Isis’
Twitter avatar used by @CENTCOM was replaced with an image of a masked militant and the legends ‘CyberCaliphate’ and ‘I love you Isis’
The social media wins of the Golden Globes 2015
From the person who noticed Catherine Zeta-Jones was an emoji to Lena Dunham going topless (again), here’s who owned social media at the Golden Globes
The golden days of free, mass social media reach never really existed
Marketers must get over the misconception that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter used to offer free ways to create meaningful engagement at scale, says Jerry Daykin
Police step in after Bristol man tweets that he hit cyclist
Rayhan Qadar posted tweet on Monday morning, causing twitterstorm – and was sacked from job within a day
Who’s taking control this year? Google, BBC, Facebook, or even North Korea?
The media industry lives in strange convergent times which are only set to get stranger in the year ahead
This was the year sexist language declined and fell (and moved online)
Naomi McAuliffe: Twitter rape threats and Gamergate cast a long shadow over an otherwise encouraging year for the demise of misogynist words
Let Muadh go: Arab Twitter users plead for pilot held by Isis
A solidarity drive for the Jordanian, captured near the Islamic State capital, goes viral online, writes Emma Graham-Harrison
Meet Gareth, the member of the silent majority picked out by Ed Miliband
Namecheck at Labour party conference led to trending on Twitter, then media frenzy for the year’s most unlikely political star
220 journalists are now in prison across the world
Annual survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists shows China and Iran have most journalists in jail
Study finds social media use beneficial to overall health of elderly
Report studied elderly and vulnerable people in UK and Italy using Skype, Facebook and other social media tools
The Guardian view on the freedom of the internet: it’s under attack around the world
Editorial: The net is a powerful weapon, and governments don’t want it in the hands of their critics
Zoella Sugg, online queen: followed by millions but ‘cripplingly shy’
Sugg’s videos dispensing beauty and life advice have 307m views, and now she has the fastest selling debut novel ever
Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online is fastest selling book of the year
YouTube star Zoella’s first book sells 78,000 copies in its first week, the highest first week’s sales of a new author ever