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Media Trends 2019: an earthquake in audience engagement, and openness to new business models

The 2019 edition of the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions report finds an industry rethinking many of its assumptions about the way digital operates.

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There's a problem with "trending"

It’s Time to End ‘Trending’: The first problem with “trending” is that it selects and highlights content with no eye toward accuracy, or quality. Automated trending systems are not equipped to make judgments; they can determine if things are being shared, but they

Predicting journalism’s 2018 - goodbye platforms, hello AI, and talking with Alexa

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Predicting journalism’s 2018 - goodbye platforms, hello AI, and talking with Alexa

Oh, happy day. Those of us in the online journalism development business get an annual present a little later than Christmas. January is when Nic Newman’s annual Journalism, Media,

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#leweb : The future through Loïc Le Meur's eyes

The 10th LeWeb kicks off with Loïc’s view of the future… One of the trends Loïc thinks important is meditation! Mindfulness is important, he suggests, taking control of what you want to do. Communities remain important – and creating physical places for them matters.

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Peak Facebook and the end of monolithic online identity

Are people rejecting the idea of a single online identity mediated by a large online entity? Stowe Boyd thinks so: The Benthamite underpinnings of Facebook are becoming unpopular. Young people in particular don’t want their teachers, parents, employers, and even all their friends

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Teenagers and tech: look at the trends, not the tools?

Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagers’ use of tech is: […] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technology’s future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time don’t become a

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Teenagers: not, in fact, natural futurologists

Do we put too much faith in the idea that teenagers are a good predictor of technology trends? Yet the vast majority of your most-used things weren’t initially popular among teens. The iPhone, the iPad, the iPod, the Google search engine, YouTube, Twitter,

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The Technology Revolution: Autumn 2009

I’m such a sucker for these things: They tell a pretty compelling story, though, don’t they?