These are the topologies of data, shifting territories of conflict. One network with infinite choices of routes between its constituent nodes of information – and an interesting place for a reporter to stake out a beat. … More A multiplicity of topologies of contestation: a new reporter’s beat
Facebook opens up its Instant Articles system to all on April 12, after a year of advance testing. Such ‘platform-driven’ news initiatives give the social media giant even more power – and responsibility. … More The mixed blessings of Facebook’s platform-driven news revolution
NATO appears increasingly troubled by the lack of a way to stage an effective counterattack against Russian propaganda. It’s proof of its very success: indecision is its objective. Certainty is Russia’s enemy. … More How do you like that? Russia gets even, not mad, in propaganda war
The best and brightest of Europe’s tech warriors meet in Valencia this week. Yet why is it that people are slow to take up their shiny new technology? Is the answer in trialling and testing? … More You built it, they didn’t come. But why didn’t they?
The ambition of Hacks/Hackers Connect was sky-high: to stimulate a stronger entrepreneurial community within the UK news industry. Its question was frank: As ‘news entrepreneurs’ what were we doing wrong? … More Tapping the start-up entrepreneurial spirit
Can bots play a role in restoring positive, constructive discourse to social media, countering hate speech with messages of tolerance and spreading accurate information to dispel bigotry, malicious rumour or fabrication? … More Algorithms and bots in the service of good and evil
In many of the 121 countries examined in this new study by WAN-IFRA Research Fellow Julie Posetti it was found that legal source protection frameworks are being seriously undermined. … More Protecting sources in the age of digital surveillance
Here’s my pitch to a UNESCO International Conference on Freedom of Expression and Media Development in Iraq, way back in January 2007. The media’s changed since, of course. … More Media development: One way to fix a broken model
“Digital is its own drug,” says Brian Solis. “People will learn how to hack their workflow because they have to. There’s too much email, too many meetings and not enough leadership to change routines.” … More Digital Detox Dynamises Digitised Dudley Do-Goods
Digital media trends and information flows need to be better covered in a world linked by 4.6 billion mobile phones, a CIMA report notes The quality and methodology of the social science underpinning these indexes is also questioned. … More Mapping & Navigating the Information Terrain
