March 23, 2016 •
Media and Politics •
by Klaus Beck
Twitter was launched ten years ago this week, full of promise. At first it appeared to live up to expectations: in 2011 the media hailed the social networking site as a democratic force behind the Arab Spring. Now Twitter is reported to...
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February 3, 2016 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Writing in Der Spiegel online, Sascha Lobo, the German blogger and digital sceptic, recently expressed his displeasure at the rapid spread of “blitz-hatred, bang-stupidity and readiness to violence” openly “spat out” on the web....
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January 19, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Caroline Lees
Facebook has launched a Europe-wide campaign to end hate speech and extremist posts on social media. The move came after German politicians complained about a rise in extremist and xenophobic comments on Facebook and other online...
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August 26, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Jairo Mejia
As a foreign correspondent for a large news agency, I know how important it is to improve the flow of meaningful news and information to clients’ newsrooms. That task is increasingly challenging as social media (especially Twitter)...
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August 24, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The role played by social media in the 2011 Arab Spring may have been overestimated by Western observers, but a new report, Media Use in the Middle East, 2015, reveals that platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are changing the...
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August 21, 2015 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Increasing numbers of consumers are using social media platforms to access news according to recent research. One study, by the Pew Research Centre, found that in 2015 the majority (63%) of Facebook and Twitter users sourced news via those...
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August 20, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Halyna Budivska
Social media has been credited with playing a pivotal role during recent mass protests, such as EuroMaidan in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, and the unrest in Ferguson in the United States. But despite the apparent evidence of a link between...
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August 6, 2015 •
Public Relations, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Foul language has become more and more socially acceptable, even in puritan America. Dean Baquet, the Executive Editor of the New York Times, recently called a journalism professor, who had criticised him for his newsroom’s coverage of...
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April 10, 2015 •
Business Models, Recent •
by Valerio Bassan
What is BuzzFeed? A newspaper for millennials, a social media, a marketing company, a lab experimenting on virality? The website started by Jonah Peretti is all of this, and it could become something else in the future. Numbers, after all,...
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