HCRHS Media Lit

Big Media is getting smaller with a merger between T-Mobile and Sprint.

""We build a digital effigy of a human being and set it alight in some kind of group catharsis," Nayna said. "It's not something I'll ever take part in again, and I'm fairly confident that if we're ever able to settle into a mature code of ethics for the internet, we'll look back at shaming as a primitive phase we went through." To this day, Nayna struggles to find the right way to respond to people who regard him as a hero for having created the video. "It was a shitty thing that I did," he says in the film. "If you look at the outcomes, I was exacting revenge. Do you make someone better by attacking them and making them feel horrible? I don't think that's true.""

"Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin. Many Americans are throwing up their hands and tuning it all out"

"When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors' Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance."

"For the month of November, Men's Health Awareness Month, TV Guide is presenting "I See You Man," a series of stories that take a deeper look at representations of men on TV today. Check back here throughout the month for more stories about men on television."

""A little bit famous" is the domain of Instagram influencers, reality TV contestants, YouTube creators, pageant queens, and mid-roster athletes who you yourself might not recognize on the street, but someone would. Over the past year, another group have entered this category: TikTok stars. These people, most visibly teenagers, have found huge audiences on the nascent app known for short video posts"

"If the apparatus of total surveillance that we have described here were deliberate, centralized, and explicit, a Big Brother machine toggling between cameras, it would demand revolt, and we could conceive of a life outside the totalitarian microscope."

"Since November, when Mark Zuckerberg first wrote about his vision for how content should be governed on Facebook, a team within our company has been working to design and implement this idea, with the help of input and feedback from people all around the world. Today, we're announcing more details on the structure of the Oversight Board and its relationship to Facebook in the form of a charter. This central governing document defines the board's mandate and describes its relationship to Facebook. It establishes its membership, governance and decision-making authority, and it sets out parameters for things like the size, scope and power of the board. In the coming months this charter will be available in multiple languages on a new board website."

"Researchers in the U.S. military are working to combat what they call "adversarial artificial intelligence." That's when someone hacks into an AI system to transmit the wrong information."

As teens move from facebook to instagram, is the fake news moving with them?

Facebook is supposed to start a news tab that prioritizes local news and outlets that first break stories. Facebook as yet to confirm that this will be a feature.

"One by one, original YouTube creators have found themselves pivoting away from the limelight to more traditional career paths. Here's why."

"An analysis of every video posted by high-subscriber channels in the first week of 2019 finds that children's content - as well as content featuring children - received more views than other videos"

"A Mother Jones investigation into nearly two dozen attacks reveals a grim pattern-and key warning signs."

"The key to harnessing the power of streaming to create something really new might be to turn the medium's ubiquity and fluidity into an advantage. Can we meaningfully allow for a given piece of music to morph and evolve with different impact on each hearing? Can this mutability engage artists' imaginations in new ways? Can listeners - or even the entire environment - play important collaborative roles in building such a "living music" culture? Several current projects at the MIT Media Lab, where we work, explore various forms that dynamically streamed music might take."

"Troll farms, bots, dark ads, fake news ... from Putin's Russia to Brexit Britain, new methods are being used to change politics and crush dissent. It's time to fight back"