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    Articles tagged platforms (81)

    Shan WangApril 9, 2018
    Facebook and Twitter are opening up a bit to academic researchers, so platforms “can make better decisions”
    A limited group of academics will be given access to some Facebook data.
    Playboy has left Facebook, the company announces on Instagram
    Public broadcasters feel tension between their public service mandate and their reliance on platforms like Facebook
    Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 28, 2018
    News in a disintegrating reality: Tow’s Jonathan Albright on what to do as things crash around us
    “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.”
    Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 22, 2018
    This TV station took a “marvelous” Facebook fast — and thinks other media companies should too
    “What we took away was that we can easily live without Facebook.”
    Here’s how Google is thinking about surfacing paywalled news organizations in search
    Shan WangJanuary 25, 2018
    Facebook’s trust survey, which will help determine News Feed ranking, is two questions. But it’s not as simple as it sounds
    What’s clear is that Facebook has plenty of data from users already, which it can — will — use in conjunction with its two-question survey.
    Shan Wang, Christine Schmidt, and Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 19, 2018
    Publishers claim they’re taking Facebook’s News Feed changes in stride. Is the “bloodletting” still to come?
    “Let’s put the nail in the coffin of chasing clicks and likes.”
    Shan WangDecember 18, 2017
    How much news makes it into people’s Facebook feeds? Our experiment suggests not much
    Half the people in our survey saw no news at all in the first 10 posts in their feeds — even using an extremely generous definition of “news” that counted everything from celebrity gossip to sports scores to history-based explainers, across all mediums.
    Shan WangNovember 8, 2017
    The Washington Post on Reddit surprises users with its non-promotional, ultra helpful presence
    User: “Lol is this the real WaPo account?” The Washington Post: “’tis we, irl.”
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