A collection of 108 posts
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has hired a community organiser, Kirsty Styles: We see ourselves as serving both the journalists/members of our network and the disparate communities that they serve across the country. By bringing these two crucial parts…
Are there strong psychological proedictors of the sorts of people likely to become persistent trolls? A group of scientists at School of Health Science and Psychology at Federation University in Mount Helen, Australia set out to find out, and they…
John Battelle thinks we actually figured out online publishing a decade ago – and then we screwed it up. How? We handed power to the social networks: Again, for emphasis: despite all the whizzy bang-y social media we’ve invented these…
Trolling – hostile, provocative anti-social behaviour – is one of the biggest challenges to any large-scale online community – and that includes comment sections on mainstream publications. The problem is far, far bigger in the online gaming world, though. And one of the…
For those who aren’t aware, within Medium are several publications they run in-house, including Backchannel, a tech magazine, and Matter, which is an evolved form of the long-form science journalism crowd-funded startup which I’ve written about in the…
