“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
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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.
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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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