We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Data & Society / Alice Marwick and Rebecca Lewis
/ May 15“Far-right groups develop techniques of ‘attention hacking’ to increase the visibility of their ideas through the strategic use of social media, memes, and bots — as well as by targeting journalists, bloggers, and influencers to help spread content. The media’s dependence on social media, analytics and metrics, sensationalism, novelty over newsworthiness, and clickbait makes them vulnerable to such media manipulation.” —
Tags:
alt-right,
Data & Society,
disinformation,
Internet culture
