"Theirtube is a Youtube filter bubble simulator that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people's YouTube. Users can experience how the YouTube home page would look for six different personas."What if the YouTube I see is not the YouTube you see? This is a good demonstration of how personalized recommendations work.
"“As a search engine, Google’s mission is to quickly direct searchers to great information, wherever that information is, as Page went on to explain. At that time, that generally meant to direct people from search results to websites. As search technologies have developed, that’s not always the best way to assist people.”It's a meritocracy! Google just happens to make all the best things. AND they decide which things are best. Win-win.
She did not answer questions about whether those changes present the search engine with a conflict of interest."
"Fast forward five years and journalists and commentators are still talking about imminent pivots and praising him for always-temporary changes in his tone."Tiring Trump trope.
"Today, the bottom-up techniques of guerrilla media activists are in the hands of the world’s wealthiest corporations, politicians, and propagandists. To them, viral media is no longer about revealing inequality or environmental threats. It’s simply an effective means of generating a response, even if that response is automatic, unthinking, and brutish."This is a great point about the nature of meme culture. It used to be a counterculture code language. Now it’s being used by billionaires to influence.
The Outline"The warmongers are never ruined by their mistakes."Justified outrage at the media's willful ignorance of recent history.
pressthink.org"Chuck Todd has essentially said that on the right there is an incentive structure that compels Republican office holders to use their time on Meet the Press for the spread of disinformation. So do you keep inviting them on air to do just that?"Paging Upton Sinclair.
greatergood.berkeley.edu"Shockingly, they found a positive and statistically significant relationship between the amount of coverage dedicated to mass shootings and the number of shootings that occurred in the following week."I wish more people knew about the media contagion problem—especially people in the media.
slate.com
Vox
OneZero
"Remember ‘We’re the free speech wing of the free speech party’? How vain and oblivious does that sound now? Well, it’s the morning after the free speech party, and the place is trashed."Fascinating interview with fourteen content moderators who have worked at various services like Google, Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook.
NYMag
nytimes.com
their.tube
The Markup
mediamatters.org
Medium