The US military runs studies on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit to learn how to counter propaganda The Next Web by Josh Ong In light of Facebook’s disconcerting emotion experiment, The Guardian has published an in-depth look at the US military’s own research efforts to understand and influence social media. DARPA, the Department of Defense’s tech research … Read more
Read some of the smartest thinkers on data journalism in this new Tow Center report Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis In order to consider the future of data journalism, you have to start by looking at the past. Alex Howard, a fellow at The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, has a new report … Read more
The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age Nieman Journalism Lab by Joshua Benton There are few things that can galvanize the news world?s attention like a change in leadership atop The New York Times. Jill Abramson?s ouster yesterday afternoon probably reduced American newsroom productivity enough … Read more
What?s New in Digital and Social Media Research: How Facebook rumors spread, and the rise of the collaborative news clip Nieman Journalism Lab by John Wihbey Editor?s note: There?s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media ? but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends … Read more
Read 10 Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez Free Online (Plus More Essays & Interviews) Open Culture by Josh Jones *********** Garcia Marquez, godfather of magic realism, passes away Hurriyet Daily News Known affectionately as ‘Gabo,’ the author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude‘ was the godfather of a literary movement that witnessed a … Read more
Q&A: Engin Önder and Zeynep Tufekci on 140journos and the state of journalism in Turkey Nieman Journalism Lab Engin Önder is not a journalist, and he?ll be the first to tell you that. (?No way,? he said, laughing, when I asked.) Instead, Önder, who cofounded the Turkish citizen journalism platform 140journos, considers himself a citizen … Read more
The NSA reportedly spied right into the heart of ?security threat? Huawei The Next Web by Jon Russell The New York Times and German newspaper Spiegel Online have reported the existence of a document that purports to show the US government spying on Chinese tech company Huawei, the world?s second largest supplier of networking products, since at least 2009. … Read more
Bill Keller, The Marshall Project, and making single-focus nonprofit news sites work ?When you have a startup, one of the most challenging things is to establish yourself as a credible news organization,? Neil Barsky, founder of a new news nonprofit focused on criminal justice issues, told me.One quick route there: Hire Bill Keller. That?s … Read more
Social Media Update 2013 As of September 2013: 71% of online adults use Facebook 18% of online adults use Twitter 17% use Instagram 21% use Pinterest 22% use LinkedIn Some 73% of online adults now use a social networking site of some kind. Facebook is the dominant social networking platform in the number of … Read more
Rating Obama?s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained Earlier today, President Obama announced a series of reforms to address abuses by the National Security Agency. We were heartened to see Obama recognized that the NSA has gone too far in trampling the privacy rights of people worldwide. In his speech, the President ensured that National Security … Read more
Court in America Trashes Net Neutrality and Opens Internet to Preferential Commercial Use via Faster Connections and Differential Pricing The Open Internet as a myth of the future?Will Internet go the way of radio — where federal deregulation has led to a concentration of U.S. radio stations in the hands of just a few companies? What is the cause … Read more
seçim günlüğü Adaylar Mustafa Sarıgül resmen aday CHP İstanbul İl Başkanı Oğuz Kaan Salıcı ve Şişli Belediye Başkanı Mustafa Sarıgül ortak basın toplantısı düzenliyor. Bugün Mustafa Sarıgül’ün İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkan adaylığı için adaylık yapması bekleniyor. İşte toplantıdan notlar: AK Parti adayı çalışmalara nereden başladıAK Parti Edirne Belediye Başkan adayı Ahmet Günşen, seçim çalışmalarına meyhaneden … Read more
2013 Web Index Report Source: World Wide Web Foundation From Press Release: Key findings from the Web Index 2013 include: Targeted censorship of Web content by governments is widespread across the globe. Moderate to extensive blocking or filtering of politically sensitive content was reported in over 30 percent of Web Index countries during the Kim Dotcom … Read more
And the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Is … ‘Selfie’ Oxford Dictionaries announced “Selfie” as the international Word of the Year 2013, noting its frequency in the English language has increased by 17,000% since last year The Online Dating Engine that Assesses Your Taste In the Opposite Sex (And Whether They Find You … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: NSA spying on Internet companies | 31/10/2013 The NSA intelligence agency also infiltrated the main communication links of Internet giants Google and Yahoo around the globe, secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden and published by the Washington Post on Wednesday reveal.The spying programmes testify to a pathological desire for control, some commentators say. … Read more