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 · · 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… · Shared by 9, including Klaus Eck, Gerrit Eicker
avc
The Fifth Estate
2 min · · 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… · Shared by 90, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Gerrit Eicker, Martin Zwilling, Balaji, Sachin Rekhi, Jonathan Kogan, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power
WIRED
On TikTok, There Is No Time
3 min · · 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 141, including Johannes Lenz, Liliane Ferrari ™, tjalve, Stephanie A Kowalski, 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 · · 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." · Shared by 99, including ExApologist, Alexandra Wong, Gerrit Eicker, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Visual Capitalist
Visualizing Social Media Use by Generation
9 min · · Every generation has the same desire for connection, but the way in which we connect over social media differs across age groups and regions. · Shared by 190, including Johannes Lenz, Chris Messina, Mike Quindazzi, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Gledhill, Antonio Vieira Santos, Andreas Staub, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Martina Bürge, Ines Bieler, Gerrit Eicker
The Guardian
TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content
4 min · · Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal · Shared by 44, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️, Gerrit Eicker, Patricia Cammarata @dasnuf@mastodon.social, Dr. Alec Couros, Michael Seemann
The Guardian
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
4 min · · Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims · Shared by 101, including Amber Mac, Ste Davies, Matt Navarra, Jörgen Camrath, Korben, James Young, Joanna J Bryson, Neeraj K Agrawal, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, George M 🇪🇺, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Martina Bürge, John Koetsier, @grzewap@mastodon.social, 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 · · The funds would support projects using a new “web monetization” protocol, including open source tools and individual creators · Shared by 85, including Esther Schindler, Mathew Ingram, Katja Evertz, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Jochen Burkhard, Gerrit Eicker, Mitch Kapor, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Bertrand Maltaverne, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Richard MacManus
BBC News (World)
Why we believe fake news
4 min · · 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? · Shared by 84, including rudolph regter, Thomas Power, Dan Ariely, Liliane Ferrari ™, Gerrit Eicker, Bernard Marr, Glyn Britton
MIT Technology Review
Teens are anxious and depressed after three hours a day on social media
2 min · · 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… · Shared by 103, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Peter Schmidhuber, Thomas Power, John Nosta, luis antónio santos, Kelly Hoey, Gerrit Eicker, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Brian Solis, Howard Getson
WIRED
The Danger of Thinking We’re All ‘Addicted’ to Tech
15+ min · · Opinion: Telling ourselves that tech 'hijacks' our brains plays right into tech's hands. · Shared by 163, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Gerrit Eicker, Cyrill Schmid, Backchannel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ines Bieler, venkat - bala, Raul Tiru 🌎, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Nir Eyal, Matthias Lampe, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Glyn Britton
Decrypt
Inside Telegram's secretive TON blockchain network
4 min · · Telegram’s Proof-of-Stake network, TON, promises to integrate blockchain payments into its messaging app that serves some 365 million users. · Shared by 7, including Gerrit Eicker
The New York Times
There Is No Tech Backlash
7 min · · Worse, we think there is one. · Shared by 79, including Keith Rabois, Thomas Power, Michael (मुकेश), Gerrit Eicker, Matthias Lampe, Benedict Evans, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, Vikram Dutt, felix salmon, Evan Selinger
The Washington Post
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience
· 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 George M 🇪🇺, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Neeraj K Agrawal, John Koetsier, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Alec Couros, Gerrit Eicker, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
Ness Labs
From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out
6 min · · 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. · Shared by 760, including Tyler Tringas, Josep M. Ganyet, Tristán Elósegui, HeyDesigner, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, dunschtig, tcherno, Liv 😷, Patric Fornasier, Glyn Britton, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, André Borges, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Beth Price Almeida, Thomas Power, Ines Bieler, Fabricio Teixeira, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, blinch, Vincenzo Tremonte
Gartner
5 Trends Appear on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019
3 min · · The Gartner Hype Cycle highlights the 29 emerging technologies CIOs should experiment with over the next year. · Shared by 154, including Paolo Sinelli, Niklaus Gerber, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Gerrit Eicker, Tom Connor, Jonathan Kogan, Remy Bataille, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Ines Bieler, Bernhard Huessy