The great remove
Journalism To become a journalist, Rajaa Elidrissi knew she would need a strategy. Growing up in a low-income household in Elmhurst, Queens, she started collecting clips at age 13. “I went to a high school that was not a high-ranking high school, and I was pretty aware that it was really hard to get into a good college,” she explains. After graduating in…
Can we observe public opinion on Twitter?
Public Opinion / Twitter Twitter data can provide a glimpse into public opinion, but a distorted one. This is the main finding of a recent study we conducted that compares Twitter data with polling data and election results. Fonte: NTNU Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.ntnu.no/blogger/realsocialmedia/2020/07/29/can-we-observe-public-opinion-on-twitter/?fbclid=IwAR0aYE1HI9DX2NOdeM9oCUQbuBE_FAUh0H1KzqXCLrIie95A660i_idoZYo Leia outros textos aqui
Checking facts is the wrong way to understand political persuasion
Checking facts / political persuasion With just over two months until the election, we can expect a steep increase in campaign messages — especially ads, mailers, events and speeches. With the rise in messages, we can also expect a complementary rise in fact-checking. Already a considerable amount of coverage — both in traditional news media and on social media — has focused on ferreting out campaigns’ political mistruths. Fonte:…
The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever
Mass Surveillance When I was working at the CIA, if you had told me that there would soon come a youth rebellion that relied on lasers and traffic cones as sword and shield, and that it would come to paralyze one of the world’s richest and most powerful governments, I would have—at the very least—raised an eyebrow. And yet as I write these words…
How the Internet gets inside us
Internet / Information When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched. And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion. The…
