Social Media
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Collection by Gerrit Eicker
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TikTok in Deutschland: Deutsche Unternehmen, Marken, Medien auf TikTok
2 min read · From 2020 · Mit der Übernahme von Musical.ly war insbesondere auch der Grundstein für TikTok in Deutschland gelegt, denn der mit weitem Abstand größte Account wurde zu diesem Zeitpunkt von Lisa und Lena Mantler…
Reader View · Shared by 9, including Klaus Eck, Gerrit Eicker
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The Fifth Estate
2 min read · From 2019 · Mark Zuckerberg, in his speech last week at Georgetown University, called social media “the Fifth Estate.” The first three “estates” of society, classically, are the clergy, the nobility, and everyone…
Reader View · Shared by 90, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Gerrit Eicker, Martin Zwilling, Balaji Srinivasan, Sachin Rekhi, Jonathan Kogan, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power
WIRED
On TikTok, There Is No Time
3 min read · From 2019 · The popular app doesn’t tell users when a video was posted. Creators say that makes it easier to steal content—but there are also upsides to forgetting what day it is.
Shared by 142, including Johannes Lenz, Liliane Ferrari ™, Stephanie A Kowalski, tjalve, Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra, Chris Messina, hiten.eth, Thomas Power, Sachin Rekhi, Gerrit Eicker
TNW
This game shows you how bots and trolls spread fake news on social media
2 min read · From 2019 · Troll Factory taps into the power of gamification to bring about awareness and "illustrate how fake news, emotive content and bot armies are utilized to affect moods, opinions and decision-making."
Reader View · Shared by 80, including Ex Apologist, Alexandra Wong, Gerrit Eicker, Merkstatt, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Visual Capitalist
Visualizing Social Media Use by Generation
9 min read · From 2019 · Every generation has the same desire for connection, but the way in which we connect over social media differs across age groups and regions.
Reader View · Shared by 191, including Johannes Lenz, Chris Messina, Mike Quindazzi ✨, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Andreas Staub, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, Martina Bürge, Ines Bieler, Gerrit Eicker
Guardian Tech
TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content
4 min read · From 2019 · Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal
Reader View · Shared by 42, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Adrian Roselli 🗯, Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️, Gerrit Eicker, Patricia Cammarata, Dr. Alec Couros, Michael Seemann
Guardian Tech
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
4 min read · From 2019 · Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
Reader View · Shared by 100, including Korben, Ste Davies, Amber Mac, Jörgen Camrath, Matt Navarra, James Young 🇺🇦, Joanna J Bryson, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Katja Evertz, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Gerrit Eicker, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Martina Bürge, John Koetsier, Grzegorz Wapiński, Johannes Lenz, Adam Tinworth, Mathew Ingram, Damien Van Achter, luis antónio santos
Fast Company
Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads, and they have $100M to do it
2 min read · From 2019 · The funds would support projects using a new “web monetization” protocol, including open source tools and individual creators
Reader View · Shared by 85, including Esther Schindler, Mathew Ingram, Katja Evertz, Chris Heilmann, Gerrit Eicker, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Mitch Kapor, Javi Cantón, Bertrand Maltaverne, Jochen Burkhard, Richard MacManus
BBC Future
Why we believe fake news
4 min read · From 2019 · The pace of life in the 21st Century has created “infostorms” that overwhelm our senses. Is believing in some of the sensationalist things we see actually a rational response?
Reader View · Shared by 84, including Gerrit Eicker, Thomas Power, Dan Ariely, Liliane Ferrari ™, rudolph regter, Bernard Marr, Glyn Britton
MIT Technology Review
Teens are anxious and depressed after three hours a day on social media
2 min read · From 2019 · A study published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry suggests that teenagers who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to develop mental health problems including…
Reader View · Shared by 103, including Merkstatt, Gerrit Eicker, Thomas Power, John Nosta, luis antónio santos, Kelly Hoey, Peter Schmidhuber, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Brian Solis - briansolis.eth, Howard Getson
WIRED
The Danger of Thinking We’re All ‘Addicted’ to Tech
~15 min read · From 2019 · Opinion: Telling ourselves that tech 'hijacks' our brains plays right into tech's hands.
Shared by 156, including Javi Cantón, venkat - bala, Cyrill Schmid, Backchannel, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Ines Bieler, Gerrit Eicker, Raul Tiru 🌎, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Nir Eyal, Matthias Lampe, Merkstatt, Thomas Power, Glyn Britton
decrypt.co
Inside Telegram's secretive TON blockchain network
4 min read · From 2019 · Telegram’s Proof-of-Stake network, TON, promises to integrate blockchain payments into its messaging app that serves some 365 million users.
Reader View · Shared by 7, including Gerrit Eicker
The New York Times
There Is No Tech Backlash
7 min read · From 2019 · Worse, we think there is one.
Reader View · Shared by 79, including Keith Rabois, Thomas Power, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Vikram Dutt, Matthias Lampe, Benedict Evans, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, Gerrit Eicker, Felix Salmon, Evan Selinger
The Washington Post
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience
From 2019 · Social media has been a quintessentially American journey rooted in ideas about creative expression and freedom of speech. But the rise of the Chinese video app TikTok could signal an end to Western dominance of the Internet’s megaphones — and an ideological change in what people see on the Web.
Shared by 51, including Gerrit Eicker, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Neeraj K. Agrawal, John Koetsier, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Alec Couros, George M 🇪🇺, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
Ness Labs
From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out
6 min read · From 2019 · JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.
Reader View · Shared by 704, including Tyler Tringas, Josep M. Ganyet, Tristán Elósegui, HeyDesigner, Cameron Yick, dunschtig, Patric Fornasier, Liv 😷, Gerrit Eicker, Vincenzo Tremonte, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, André Borges, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Beth Price Almeida, Thomas Power, Ines Bieler, Fabricio Teixeira, Chris Heilmann, blinch, Glyn Britton
Gartner
5 Trends Appear on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019
3 min read · From 2019 · The Gartner Hype Cycle highlights the 29 emerging technologies CIOs should experiment with over the next year.
Reader View · Shared by 154, including Gerrit Eicker, Niklaus Gerber, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Tom Connor, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Jonathan Kogan, Remy Bataille, Paolo Sinelli, Ines Bieler, Bernhard Huessy
