Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
The Lily: iterating a visual and editorial voice (News Impact Summit, Paris) Paid Members Public
For the social media generation, the design of a story is just as important as the journalism. The Lily's Amy King explained the team's interactive approach to design at the News Impact Summit.
Facebook has implemented a traffic threshold for Instant Articles Paid Members Public
It appears Facebook has quietly implemented a traffic threshold for getting access to Instant Articles. Sites that fall below it are losing access to the format.
Digital News Report 2018: traffic from — and trust in — social media on the decline Paid Members Public
The new Digital News Report is out - and things are looking grim in the intersection of social media and news. Here's a couple of preliminary observations.
Understanding the meme Paid Members Public
Abby Rabinowitz, writing for Nautilus about memes [http://nautil.us/issue/5/fame/the-meme-as-meme]: > 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 1976 book,
Quote of the Day Paid Members Public
> Social media first undermined the media’s and institutions’ credibility, and now their own. Peter Bihr [https://thewavingcat.com/2018/03/01/welcome-to-the-post-social-media-era/]
Russia’s trolling operations are effective, but not sophisticated Paid Members Public
Russia’s Troll Operation Was Not That Sophisticated [https://medium.com/the-atlantic/russias-troll-operation-was-not-that-sophisticated-39111b4f1ce4] : > 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 the group’s size,
Twitter’s abuse problem is, at heart, a technology problem Paid Members Public
This is a damning summation of Twitter’s structural problems [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war]: > “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, ‘Trolls
Even in the depths of the social media backlash, there’s reason for hope Paid Members Public
At the end of a session at LCC [http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-journalism/] 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 [http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/people/
