Engaged Reading Digest: Adobe's Reddit error, impact editing and good news for good news
Today's digital journalism digest: good news, new job roles and Reddit trolls
polarisation
Chat app groups can lead to more extreme views
We know how closed groups work — and that suggests that a shift to chat apps will only increase polarisation.
satire
Partisan satire and the mechanisms of unintentional misinformation
The Washington Post has detailed the vicious circle between two different political groups that is breeding unintentional misinformation - and increasing polarisation
X (Twitter)
Twitter to UnLike Likes?
Could Twitter be about to kill the Like? What impact would that have on the network?
The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook
The attitude Mark Zuckerberg is displaying towards news suggests a deep ignorance of the true dynamics of news and its role in society.
What causes Fake News to spread? People.
For all the panic, soul-searching and debate about the “fake news” phenomenon, there’s one basic truth I rarely see discussed. Much of the blame for the spread of “fake news” can be placed squarely at the feet of the general public, far too few of whom actually apply critical
psychology
Social media and the annihilation of self
One of the cornerstones of much social media theory is that it enables a constructed self: we show off the best version of ourselves. And it’s a neat theory that explains some of the depression people experience after spending time on social media – they compare the reality of themselves
ISIS
ISIS recruits women via social media
ISIS recruits women via social media [http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a20011/western-women-who-join-isis/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email] How ISIS uses social media to recruit women: > “The moment you indicate any sort of interest in ISIS or ask any questions about it on a social platform, you
creativity
What does it mean to be creative?
Compelling exploration of how creative minds function [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/12/24/the-messy-minds-of-creative-people/] : > As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead
celebrities
The celebrity, everyone's social media pseudo-friend
Interesting exploration of the pseudo-relationships with celebrities that social media enables [http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/rihanna-doesnt-give-a-crap-about-you]: > Spitzberg describes how a fan might respond to something like a celebrity tweet and then, days later, see an unrelated tweet from the same celebrity and read meaning into it because they’
creativity
Naming that GoPro tune
If you watch a number of GoPro-type extreme sports videos, you’re probably deeply familiar with this track: This tune is indelibly marked in my head as the “Le Web tune”, because as I sit in the main stage area, finishing liveblog posts, high-energy GoPro videos are often playing with
bereavement
The three paths of grief
There's many paths through grief, but none of them are easy.