tumblr
Tumblr has transformed into a brand-safe zombie of its former self
An interview with a Verizon suit makes it clear that Tumblr is a hollow shell of what it once was. What does this say for the experimentation the web once offered?
Social Media
Teaching a teenager about social media
Apparently a student on work experience at The Telegraph [http://tmgacademy.weebly.com/jashana.html] enjoyed my training: > One of the highlights during my week here, was getting the chance to attend a course with Adam Tinworth , a lecturer and journalist, called āWriting for the Webā. This course was
Are you ready for your corporate approved social interaction experience?
Cliff Watson [https://medium.com/understandings-epiphanies/aae8d5f880cc]: > You see, weāve come to define āsocialā in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. āSocialā has come to mean the exact opposite of what itās meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define āsocialā as once- or twice-removed ego validation
snapchat
Teenagers and tech: look at the trends, not the tools?
Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagersā use of tech is [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/why-the-youth-market-matters-for-snapchat-and-facebook-despite-what-the-wsj-thinks/] : > [ā¦] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technologyās future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time donāt
tech adoption
Teenagers: not, in fact, natural futurologists
Do we put too much faith in the idea that teenagers are a good predictor of technology trends [http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303559504579202623459037550?mod=WSJ_hp_EditorsPicks] ? > Yet the vast majority of your most-used things werenāt initially popular among teens. The iPhone, the iPad, the iPod,
community
Le Web: danah boyd on Social Network Visibility
How do teenagers navigate social networks? danah has been doing the researchā¦
estates gazette
21st Century Work Experience for Aspiring Journos
I hope youāll excuse me another link to the Estates Gazette Focus teamās blog (I used to be part of that team, and I have a huge soft spot for them), but Iām just loving that theyāve been allowing their work experience teenager to blog for
danah boyd
Le Web 3: danah boyd on Youth Culture
How MySpace displaced Friendster ā and how teens navigate the dangers of predators and parents.
Journalism
Why Teenagers Don't Read Magazines
John Naughton [http://molly.open.ac.uk/Personal-pages/OAQs.htm]ās speech to the Society of Editors [http://www.societyofeditors.co.uk/] conference last week has reprinted in The Observer as Young people donāt like us. Who can blame them? [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1945553,