toxic communities
Narcissism and toxic communities
Dispatches from the dark places of community management, where comics pros groom young women, and My Little Pony communities get infested with Nazis…
social & digital lunchbreak
The misinformation war is still an asymmetric one
In the quest for people's beliefs, a thousand little lies are more powerful than a single big truth.
social & digital lunchbreak
Niches, networks and the secrets of TikTok revealed
Useful reading on the future of publishing, the secrets of TikTok and the growth of online community during the pandemic.
social media journalism
Social & Digital lunchbreak: rethinking, well, everything…
From the challenges of being a journalist on social media, to the shifting face of podcasts, there's plenty to be thinking about today.
reuters institute
Digital News Report 2020: the trust crisis and its solutions
2020's edition of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report is dominated, as you would expect, with the changes wrought by the pandemic. But there's an underlying trends that's worth focusing on.
Facebook
Social & Digital Lunchbreak: Facebook doesn't care, the spawn of news and conspiracies - and two vital jobs
Your lunchtime digest of social and digital news, reminding us of Facebook's indifference, and the impact of Covid-19 on what is important reporting right now…
audience engagement
Social & Digital lunchbreak: the engaging, managing & uplifting edition
Three helpful links (and a memorialisation of a failure) to help you find positivity in dark days…
Instagram
Social & Digital lunchbreak: avoiding news, spreading correction - and keeping the 'gram fresh
Three stories and two newsletters worth a little of your precious attention today.
trolling
Engaged Reading Digest: the escalation of trolling to the global stage
If you were in any doubt that the fundamental tools of the online troll are now at play in global politics, the last week should have put paid to that.