Rotten Tomatoes is changing what it looks for in movie critics
It’s making it easier for independent critics to join the platform.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes is changing what it looks for in movie critics
It’s making it easier for independent critics to join the platform.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes is changing what it looks for in movie critics
When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age writes Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home
The results of the first round of a YouGov-Mint Millennial survey show that millennials are using social media networks much more than older cohorts
Source: The rise of millennials and the death of television – Livemint
21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries.
Source: The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong – MIT Technology Review
Many parents think teens are too absorbed by screens. Teens agree.
Source: Pew Study: Teens Aren’t Happy With Their Screen Time – The Atlantic
Fresh research has revealed that Google has pulled ahead of Amazon in the smart speaker department, the latest move by the tech giant in its quest to be the best in the biz at tracking users and building speech recognition tools.
Netflix’s subscriptions are stalling, but tricking users into watching mediocre content is a recipe for disaster.
To make world-class corporate citizenship and profitability work in tandem, we need to change the rules so that racing to the bottom is no longer the most effective way to compete, and to ensure that treating people well is the profitable thing to do. This means continuing the push to raise the minimum wage and to make the provision of decent health and educational benefits mandatory — or at the very least, heavily tax-advantaged. It means grappling with the explosion of contract work, ensuring that employers can’t evade their responsibilities by simply relabeling employees as contractors.
Source: What Would It Take to Get Businesses to Focus Less on Shareholder Value?
The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the last year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolved to include measuring the credibility of users to help identify malicious actors.
Source: Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 – The Washington Post
When Spotify detects ad blockers, it warns the free user at least once before suspending them. But the streamer is also building new ways to detect and block the ad blockers.
Source: Spotify, Other Streamers Losing Revenue To Ad-Blockers – hypebot
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned — and Have Still to Learn — From the Financial Crisis
Amazon’s Twitch is cheating music creators and rights’ owners out of their just due. Using music without permission or payment deprives creators and performers, and impacts everyone that works for them and with them.
And so are all the big boys of tech.
Source: Mark Zuckerberg Is Totally Out of His Depth – Bloomberg
Possession, not use, of a mobile phone counteracts feelings of isolation, UCI-led study finds
Source: Smartphones act as digital security blankets in stressful social situations | UCI News | UCI
Tesla’s billionaire CEO is revealing exactly what the social platform is truly optimized for—the amplification of powerful voices.
Source: Elon Musk Loves Twitter, Twitter Loves Elon Musk – The Atlantic
‘It’s the equivalent of a public health crisis.’
Source: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Believing Fake News | Time
The platform won’t ban the dangerous liar Alex Jones because he “hasn’t violated our rules.” Then what’s the point of these rules?
Source: Opinion | Rules Won’t Save Twitter. Values Will. – The New York Times
The maker of Snapchat said it lost 3 million daily active users in the latest quarter, following similar drops or flattening growth from Facebook and Twitter.
Source: Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak – The New York Times
Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance.
Source: AI That Reads All a Company’s Emails to Gauge Morale – The Atlantic
The rules that Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter follow in their roles as arbiters of online speech are often vague. Critics say they are arbitrary.
Source: Gatekeepers or Censors? How Tech Manages Online Speech – The New York Times