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Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.
pEver since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]/p
Vincenzo Natali's Peripheral Visions - What Future with Joshua Topolsky | iHeart
Come for Josh's rant on the future of the internet, stay for his conversation with Vincenzo Natali, director of 'Cube,' 'Splice,' and your favorite episodes of 'Hannibal,' who has taken on William Gibson's reality-bending book 'The Peripheral' and turned it into electrifying TV. The two discuss how horror is in our DNA, his creative relationship with AI, and the difficulties of turning 80's sci-fi into modern art. Discussed: Ray Harryhausen, math that kills you, "big" iPads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How bots invaded social media and changed the world forever
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NextGen 2022
Navigating a strange new world through tech.
How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany
From the Beatles to One Direction — her new book on the history of fans
Views of the News: Should journalists get off Twitter?
Is it time for journalists to get off Twitter? One of the nation’s leading newspapers has made a presence on the social platform optional. We’ll talk about why, and what effects this could have on the quality of reporting and the safety of reporters. Also, Warner Bros. Discovery’s takeover of CNN and HBO, the collapse of Black News Channel and the USA Today’s innovative use of comic journalism. From Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.
A Twitter tightrope without a net: Journalists’ reactions to newsroom social media policies
pResponses to this report written by journalists and media scholars. Each focusing on a specific issue raised, including legal considerations (Victoria Baranetsky), online harassment (Michelle Ferrier), representation (Leonor Ayala Polley), audience trust (Benjamin Toff), and objectivity (Laura Wagner), can be read here. Executive Summary Journalists increasingly rely on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter […]/p
Five perspectives on newsroom social media policies
Yesterday, we published a report that explores journalists’ experiences with and views of newsroom social media policies. Below are five responses to the report written by journalists and media scholars. Each of these focuses on a specific issue raised in the report, including legal considerations (Victoria Baranetsky), online harassment (Michelle Ferrier), representation (Leonor Ayala Polley), audience trust (Benjamin Toff), and objectivity […]
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Twitter shouldn’t be hiding basic app improvements behind its Blue paywall
Twitter Blue charges for what should be free improvements to Twitter.
Where the Intention Economy Beats the Attention Economy
There’s an economic theory here: Free customers are more valuable than captive ones—to themselves, to the companies they deal with, and to the marketplace. If that’s true, the intention…
Are people lying more since the rise of social media and smartphones?
A seminal 2004 study was among the first to investigate the connection between deception rates and technology. What does a 2021 update show?
Snap Spotlight Submission and Revenue Terms - Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is a camera company. Our products empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
The Mystery of Big Knee Lover
He really loves big knees
The rise of the TikTok tour guide
One influencer was able to snag free meals for two weeks straight.
Is Clubhouse Creating An Equitable Environment For All Its Users?
This article explores the new voice-based app, Clubhouse, and whether the app is truly creating an experience that promotes equity.
Does the Internet Make Us Lonely?
Studies of the social impact of the Internet must consider the changing lifestyle of the new economy and not relate solely to industrial-age concepts.
The Nod hosts ditch Spotify to relaunch their original show
And they own everything about the show.
Twitter partners with AP and Reuters to address misinformation on its platform | TechCrunch
Twitter announced today it’s partnering with news organizations The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to expand its efforts focused on highlighting reliable news and information on its platform. Through the new agreements, Twitter’s Curation team will be able to leverage the expertise of the partnered organizations to add more context to the news and trends […]
A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III
Joy and pain, harmony and discord, organization and chaos—there’s no single way to define Black Twitter’s complex, ongoing legacy.
Farewell, Periscope | by Periscope | Dec, 2020 | Medium
Today, we’re sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021. First off, we want to be transparent about why we’re making this…
Security researcher claims to have hacked Trump’s Twitter account - The Verge
Trump said earlier this week that "nobody gets hacked."
How to Prevent Social Media’s Editorial Role From Becoming Censorship of Speech — The Information
While you can quibble with the details, the social platforms did the right thing in initially limiting the distribution of last week’s New York Post article on Hunter Biden. As others have noted, in the wake of the 2016 election, platforms like Facebook and Twitter were forced to make certain ...
YouTube comes for Q - Platformer
Plus: Twitter and the New York Post, revisited
Letter of Recommendation: The random button on Reddit - On Posting
There's a button at the top of the Reddit homepage called "Random." When pressed, the algorithm will serve you up one of the 138,000 subreddits bobbing around the website's depths. We've all found our own languid methods to pass the time during the mounting months of quarantine, and this has been mine. Days and nights, passively logged on, pressing that button over and over again, greeting a new subcommittee of brilliant obsessives and weirdos. Reddit, by its nature, is home to both vast ultra-generalized superboards, (like the self-explanatory r/WorldNews or r/Politics,) and the microscopi...
FCC will move to regulate social media after censorship outcry - The Verge
The move follows a whirlwind moderation debate from Republicans
Where Deer Stroll Peacefully Past Computers
Moments of social mobilization enliven and expand our political imagination. Among the things that sorely need reimagining is our technology.
Following successful experiments, Twitter will prompt all users to read the articles they’re about to retweet
One of Twitter's summer experiments — to get people to read news articles before retweeting them — will be rolled out to the rest of the platform "very soon." Twitter announced the experiment in June in an effort to "promote informed discussion", as one of a few projects …