“Bottom line: The decline in referrals to publishers from Facebook is not universal, and in the face of those declines, other sources of traffic are more important than ever.”
BuzzFeed’s fake-news reporter outlines some of the dangers ahead: “We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created.”
“The promise of Facebook growth is that, if get your strategy just right, you can get big scale and make money off a relatively small cost base…But there is no media business without a relationship with the consumer.”
“We’re always navigating information and culture by way of these mechanisms, and every mechanism has a built in notion of what it’s trying to accomplish.”
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Q&A: Tarleton Gillespie says algorithms may be new, but editorial calculations aren’t." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Jul. 2014. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2014, Jul. 8). Q&A: Tarleton Gillespie says algorithms may be new, but editorial calculations aren’t. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/07/qa-tarleton-gillespie-says-algorithms-may-be-new-but-editorial-calculations-arent/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Q&A: Tarleton Gillespie says algorithms may be new, but editorial calculations aren’t." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 8, 2014. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/07/qa-tarleton-gillespie-says-algorithms-may-be-new-but-editorial-calculations-arent/.
Wikipedia
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