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Abby Rabinowitz, writing for Nautilus about memes: But trawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist who coined the word “meme” in his classic…
Social media first undermined the media’s and institutions’ credibility, and now their own. Peter Bihr…
Russia’s Troll Operation Was Not That Sophisticated: The Russians tracked how well what they were posting was connecting with people. “In order to gauge the performance of various groups on social media sites, the ORGANIZATION tracked certain metrics like…
This is a damning summation of Twitter’s structural problems: “It’s a technology company with crappy technologists, a revolving door of product heads and C.E.O.s, and no real core of technological innovation. You had Del saying,…
At the end of a session at LCC today — I’m doing a small series of workshops on social media in journalism for the 2nd year undergraduates there under the auspices of Russell Merryman — one of the students approached me…
