When journalists factcheck politicians (or don’t), how to flag bad behavior on social media, and getting past slactivism: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
Two MIT Media Labbers are developing a “context curation platform” that aims to explain what you need to know without taking you out of the reading experience. Liam Andrew
Guessing the location of tweets without geolocation, tracking who’ll pay for online news, and the conditions that encourage learning on Facebook: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
A new paper out of MIT’s Center for Civic Media uses Media Cloud and other tools to map how the story of Trayvon Martin’s death was told — and evolved. Caroline O'Donovan
The director of the MIT Media Lab compares the worlds of media and tech, and says “When you’re sinking, you have two ways to go: You can bet the house on something, go all in, or you can try to become smaller and smaller until you disappear.”
“When you’re writing, especially journalism internationally, there is sort of a lack of cognizance around the facts that you’re not writing solely for an American audience anymore.”
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Monday Q&A: EFF’s Jillian York on just-in-time censorship, scaling connectors, and the problem with banning porn." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 11 Mar. 2013. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2013, Mar. 11). Monday Q&A: EFF’s Jillian York on just-in-time censorship, scaling connectors, and the problem with banning porn. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/03/monday-qa-effs-jillian-york-on-just-in-time-censorship-scaling-connectors-and-the-problem-with-banning-porn/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Monday Q&A: EFF’s Jillian York on just-in-time censorship, scaling connectors, and the problem with banning porn." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 11, 2013. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/03/monday-qa-effs-jillian-york-on-just-in-time-censorship-scaling-connectors-and-the-problem-with-banning-porn/.
Wikipedia
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