“The kinds of things that I often see could literally be stopped by one person. I mean: 4chan trending on Google during the Las Vegas shooting? How that even happened, I have no idea, but I do know that one person could have stopped that.”
Metaphors don’t just highlight a comparison — they also downplay the aspects they don’t capture. And “platform” papers over some of the big questions social media raises.
Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis NielsenJune 21, 2017
Plus: a new model for audio native advertising (sponsor-produced episodes in an otherwise editorial show), ESPN goes cross-platform, and The New York Times enters the competitive politics podcast space.
Lichterman, Joseph. "BuzzFeed is building a New York-based team to experiment with news video." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 23 May. 2016. Web. 21 Apr. 2018.
APA
Lichterman, J. (2016, May. 23). BuzzFeed is building a New York-based team to experiment with news video. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 21, 2018, from http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/buzzfeed-is-building-a-new-york-based-team-to-experiment-with-news-video/
Chicago
Lichterman, Joseph. "BuzzFeed is building a New York-based team to experiment with news video." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 23, 2016. Accessed April 21, 2018. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/buzzfeed-is-building-a-new-york-based-team-to-experiment-with-news-video/.
Wikipedia
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