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Pew Report: Speaking Up or Staying Silent on Social Media

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Hope has been placed on the Internet (particularly on social media) to expose users to more sources of information and diverse points of view. In the 1970s, an article in the Journal of Communication by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann coined the term “spiral of silence” to describe the observed phenomenon. By Shannon Perry.

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Google Acquires Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

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In an announcement on Titan Aerospace’s website, the partnership should allow Google to provide Internet access to millions living in the developing world, and Google’s employment of drones can assist future efforts to respond to natural and manmade disasters like tsunamis and oil spills.

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How Hackers Talk Their Way Into Getting Company Secrets

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Read Robert McMillan’s article about how hackers use social engineering to steal company secrets on Wall Street Journal: Often it begins with an innocuous-seeming email from an internet domain that closely resembles the victims. The message may appear to come from the company’s chief executive or another senior executive.

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Narrative Science raises $6m to replace web copywriters with computers. How long until journalism is automated?

Trends in the Living Networks

The internet can be characterized very simply. Billions of people are looking for interesting and useful information, and millions of companies are trying to make money by people finding their content, through search engines and increasingly on social media. billion , more than the New York Times.

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Researchers develop ‘smart’ touch-responsive internet-enabled newspaper

Trends in the Living Networks

However at a couple of points, notably a guest lecture to Moscow’s Higher School of Economics’ School of Journalism, I have delved into the future of media. My European speaking tour (ending today) has had two primary themes: crowdsourcing and the future of corporate IT.

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Photograph Leak Demonstrates Importance of Good Hygiene

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The Washington Post , The New York Times , and The Wall Street Journal have dedicated front-page links to the story, in a press wave that will contribute to the public’s increasing exposure to cybersecurity concepts and the growing importance of information security.

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How social justice slideshows took over Instagram

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But in a time of social unrest, these text-based slideshow graphics have found new resonance and an eager audience on the platform, which has been notorious for prioritizing still images over text. The way Hu describes it, in spite of the massive interest toward social justice slideshows, Instagram’s algorithm “actively fights against it.”

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