Free Post facebook Social & Digital coffee break: escaping the Facebook shadow It’s not really a surprise that Facebook can’t be trusted — but are we really taking the steps we need to end our additions to it? This, and many other useful topics in today’s digest.
Free Post comments The need for intelligent skepticism, proved through links Can you trust your commenters? Can you trust your transcription service? In the digital world, here be dragons…
Free Post politics Schadenfreude as a personal indulgence, not a public performance You might be enjoying Trump's illness — but does posting about it actually help anyone?
Free Post politics Social & Digital lunchbreak: inflection points in politics and subscriptions Lots of simmering tensions in politics and social media are coming to a head. Interesting timing…
Free Post engaged reading digest Engaged Reading Digest: 17th Birthday Edition This blog may by 17 years old, but that's no excuse for stopping the links coming!
Free Post BBC General Election 2019: the news media failed profoundly — but not in the way you think Reuters Institute research shows that most of what we believe about the general public and politics news is wrong — and that we are profoundly failing to engage them.
Free Post tiktok TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed TikTok stars are “fading” already - and the reason why suggests the challenge ahead for the platform.
Free Post politics Dominic Cummings’ blogpost, direct dialogue and its threat to mainstream political journalism The Prime Minster's Chief Special Advisor outlined a new vision for the civil service in a blogpost — and with it, a new way of communicating policy, in way we need to pay attention to.
Free Post politics Three questions about the UK's journalism landscape after the General Election result A major shift in the political landscape of the UK raises some critical questions about the role of truth and journalism in the social media mindscape.
Free Post misinformation Election Watch 2019 #1: Lies, Leaks and Dead Squirrels Connecting up some of the reporting about the use of misinformation and propaganda during the 2019 UK general election.
Free Post journalism The dangers of under-estimating complexity Research shows that climate skepticism comes from a distinct part of the political spectrum. But is journalism making those same connections?
Free Post chat apps Engaged Reading Digest: a changing language, unfluencers and dodging state surveillance Some interesting reading on how the internet is changing language, reverse influencer psychology and apps in pretests.
Free Post privacy We'll regret surrendering our ambient privacy You don't know what you've got til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a Facebook lot.
Free Post Twitter Guilt by Twitter association — how Labour Left Voice blocked swathes of Twitter One Corbynite Twitter account has been blocking great swathes of Twitter - and thus created a manual filter bubble.
