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 · 2020-02-17 · 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…
avc
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…
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.
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."
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.
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
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
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
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?
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
