Considering vertical vs horizontal perspectives
Before 1930, moving picture aspect ratios were all over the place. But mass distribution...
Category Archives: Social Media
“Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms…”
Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms: as...
“I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has been an increase in the permissibility of the expressions of anti-Semitism and its amplification by the tools of social media”
I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has...
“…the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness has been through its embrace of openness”
…the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness...
“If the West really wants to destroy the Islamic State’s ‘deceptive media halo’, we need to take a page from them and foster our own forms of crowdsourced messages”
If the West really wants to destroy the Islamic State’s “deceptive media halo,” we...
“In retrospect, Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup”
In retrospect, Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup. Before...
“This year, political content has become more popular all across [Facebook]”
This year, political content has become more popular all across the platform: on homegrown...
“Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces”
Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces....
“Clinton has…assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames people for their garbage posts…. Trump plays the troll”
Clinton has, herself, assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames...
“The technological use of ‘avatar’ emerged via a spontaneous burst of coinages in the late 1980s and early ’90s, at the dawn of personal computing”
The technological use of “avatar” emerged via a spontaneous burst of coinages in the...