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Journalism’s polycrisis, explained Paid Members Public
While the waters of digital journalism have never been calm, right now we're passing through a storm that will sink some publications — but be the making of others. Here's what's causing that tempest.
Media Trends 2019: an earthquake in audience engagement, and openness to new business models Paid Members Public
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.
There's a problem with "trending" Paid Members Public
It’s Time to End ‘Trending’ [https://medium.com/new-york-magazine/its-time-to-end-trending-28f59e415832]: > 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 Paid Members Public
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, and Technology Trends and Predictions report hits. Today’s the day. I haven’t had the time to dive into
#leweb : The future through Loïc Le Meur's eyes Paid Members Public
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. Digital detoxing is happening because tech
Peak Facebook and the end of monolithic online identity Paid Members Public
Are people rejecting the idea of a single online identity mediated by a large online entity? Stowe Boyd thinks so [http://stoweboyd.com/post/67357217833/facebook-still-dominant-strives-to-keep-cachet] : > The Benthamite underpinnings of Facebook are becoming unpopular. Young people in particular don’t want their teachers, parents, employers, and even all their
Teenagers and tech: look at the trends, not the tools? Paid Members Public
Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagers’ use of tech is [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/why-the-youth-market-matters-for-snapchat-and-facebook-despite-what-the-wsj-thinks/] : > […] 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
Teenagers: not, in fact, natural futurologists Paid Members Public
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 weren’t initially popular among teens. The iPhone, the iPad, the iPod,
