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- Journalism in the Age of Social Media (2010) https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/journalism-age-social-media 2 comments
- Social media's effect on journalism is greater than shift from print to digital http://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/platform-press-how-silicon-valley-reengineered-journalism.php 72 comments
- Kanye West to Buy Parler, a Libertarian Social-Media Platform, Company Says | Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/kanye-west-to-buy-libertarian-social-media-platform-parler-11666003746?mod=hp_lead_pos11 128 comments moderatepolitics
- An investigate journalism piece about the Padres social media "hack" https://www.gaslampball.com/2018/1/26/16937004/padres-social-media-accounts-hacked 7 comments baseball
- The Great Social Media–News Collapse | Big Tech’s relationship with journalism is much more complicated than it appears https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/social-media-news-readership-decline/675890/ 10 comments technology
- Bitcoin has popularized the idea of "decentralization". Could we decentralize the power grid with solar? Decentralized food production with Freight Farms? Social media has decentralized information and journalism https://medium.com/@trevorstark02/will-the-future-be-decentralized-783f97c3f141?sk=a0b337cc15ea41bfd8d089fbfe2a916d 19 comments bitcoin
- Delegitimizing the media? Analyzing politicians’ media criticism on social media - (2021) Journal of Language and Politics. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jlp.20081.ege 3 comments technology
- [Peoria Journal Star] Peoria Rivermen release player because of homophobic content on social media https://www.pjstar.com/story/sports/nhl/rivermen/2023/01/14/peoria-rivermen-release-player-homophobic-content-on-social-media-hockey-sphl/69808491007/ 127 comments hockey
- Engadget with its typical shitty "journalism" of just reposting what its parent company tells them to without any fucking research, do not trust Engadget or AOL. Title: Social media bots may have fuelled the GameStop stock frenzy https://www.engadget.com/social-media-bots-gamestop-stocks-182411035.html 4 comments wallstreetbets
- [Sports Business Journal] Roman Reigns/Jimmy Uso/Solo Sikoa clip has been viewed more than 40 million times across social media, making it SmackDown!’s most viewed clip of 2023 https://twitter.com/sbj/status/1665836084029280257?s=46&t=g5y_V0z4tMm48v5dWFofJA 84 comments squaredcircle
- Scientists' social media networks brought to light several bad AI-generated figures circulated from a peer-reviewed article recently published in a reputable journal | The publisher of the review article, Frontiers, is aware of concerns regarding the published piece. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/ 5 comments science
- MadhyaPradesh: A video of a girl being sexually harassed by a group of youths has gone viral on social media. The video was recorded during #Bhagoria festival- one of the biggest annual events of tribal dominated district Alirajpur in MP. Police have registered a case. - Free Press Journal https://twitter.com/fpjindia/status/1502887616047288320?s=09&t=UX3G0DOWIhLundgeSKZ_-w 12 comments india
- What Social Media Needs to Learn From Traditional Media - Government regulation will never fix everything wrong with online discourse. The industry needs to develop professional norms—just as journalism once did. https://www.wired.com/story/what-social-media-needs-to-learn-from-traditional-media/ 88 comments technology
- Malicious COVID-19 online content -- including racist content, disinformation and misinformation -- thrives and spreads online by bypassing the moderation efforts of individual social media platforms, according to new research published in the journal Scientific Reports. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/gwu-mce061121.php 9 comments science
- Young adults who have experienced abuse or neglect in childhood are more likely to show signs of problematic and compulsive social media use, according to research published in the journal Psychiatry Research. https://www.psypost.org/2018/06/childhood-maltreatment-predicts-problematic-social-media-use-young-adulthood-51509 7 comments science
- People at-risk for Facebook addiction have a distorted sense of time when deprived of the social networking website. Our perception of time could serve as a “useful marker” of whether we’re at-risk for social media addiction, according to a new study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. http://www.psypost.org/2018/01/people-risk-facebook-addiction-distorted-sense-time-study-finds-50537 6 comments science
- China will be punishing news outlets that use social media as source. The Cyberspace Administration of China, which censors online information in the country, has said the new mandate could be interpreted as a requirement to adhere to stricter standards of journalism. http://www.ibtimes.com.au/china-punish-news-outlets-using-social-media-source-1520988 5 comments worldnews
- Pretty much every social media site except Reddit outed for sharing personal data with advertisers by PCWorld and Wall Street Journal -Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Digg etc -- Good job Reddit http://www.pcworld.com/article/196869/social_networking_sites_may_be_sharing_your_info_with_advertisers.html 6 comments reddit.com
- Much of the published medical research goes unread by the general public and medical community. A new study has found that social media editors lack established best practices and support from their journals and home institutions, making it difficult for them to successfully promote new research. https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/october/social-media-medical-journals/ 4 comments science