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Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
The second is more media than social. It’s driven by AI-powered and network-driven platforms that allow people to discover creativity, learning, and connection online. TikTok is an early iteration, untethered from a social graph and letting strangers connect across the globe.
Rex Woodbury • The Evolution of Social Media: Splitting Into Social and Media
To accomplish this goal, the “proud extroversion” of the early Web soon gave way to a much more homogenized experience: hundred-and-forty-character text boxes, uniformly sized photos accompanied by short captions, Like buttons, retweet counts, and, ultimately, a shift away from chronological time lines and profile pages and toward statistically opt... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Inexpensive and user-friendly digital tools for manipulating text, images and sounds — think Photoshop or GarageBand — have dramatically broadened access to the means of cultural production and blurred the lines between amateurs and professionals. But the question is not just how many people engage in cultural production — it’s how people engage.&
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Digital News Report 2024
The 2024 Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute analyzes shifts in news consumption, rising concerns about fake content, and the impact of video networks like YouTube and TikTok.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
the average online community in 2016 was achieving engagement rates of 50% lurk-ers, 23% contributors and 27% creators.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Scott Belsky
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