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2016/05/182016/05/17

Antechinus: Toxic US Media — All Show No Substance

U.S. TV News and Communicative Architecture: Between Manufacturing Consent and Mediating Democracy By sidelining communicative architectures that facilitate democracy and an informed electorate, dominant journalistic conventions are key components of propaganda, or the manufacture of consent. Cottle and Matthews argue that ‘communicative structures’ or ‘communicative architectures’, are an under-studied and under-recognised instrument for the manufacture …

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2016/04/122016/04/10

Antechinus: Real-Time Media Manipulations

Realtime Video Manipulation Researchers at Stanford animate the facial expressions of a target video by a source actor and re-render the manipulated output video in a seamless photo-realistic fashion. The authors show how disturbingly easy it is to take a surrogate actor and, in real time using everyday available tools, reenact their face and create …

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2016/02/222016/02/20

Stephen E. Arnold: Print – and Digital – Media Dead

Print and Digital: Both Goners I read in McPaper this article: “Wolff: Print’s Dead — but So Is Digital.” Okay, I learned from Dr. Francis Chivers (Duquesne University professor in the 1960s) that God is dead. I learned from Francis Fukuyama (assorted universities) that history is dead. Now I learn from McPaper that print and …

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2016/02/162016/02/15

Berto Jongman: NSF Truthy Social Media Project

Feds Pouring Money Into a Project to Create a Database to Track “Suspicious” Internet Memes The federal government spent $1 million to create an online database that will collect “suspicious” memes and track “misinformation.” The project, which is known as the “Truthy Database” is being funded by The National Science Foundation, but it seems as …

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2016/02/092016/02/07

Robert James Beckett: Tim Berners-Lee on Next Big Step – Social Media with a Heart Giving Us Time to Think

We need a social media with heart that gives us time to think | Will Hutton www.theguardian.com As even Tim Berners-Lee has recognised, the volume of data with which we’re being bombarded prevents us from engaging in genuine debate

2015/12/042015/12/05

Mongoose: Messianic Jew Picked the Fight in San Bernadino — No Politician and No Media Personality Will Mention This….

Kudos to The Jerusalem Post for getting to the bottom of San Bernadino. An intemperate Messianic Jew picked the fight with inflamatory rhetoric and direct personal attacks in cyber space (social media). Slain Messianic Jew had argued Islam, Israel with San Bernardino shooter

2015/11/252015/11/23

Doug Rushkoff: How Digital Media Finally Enables Distributed Enterprise

Platform Cooperativism, hosted by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider, the closing keynote, a first effort at expressing the gist of my upcoming book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, in 40 minutes of speaking.So here’s the video of that talk. This may be the only talk where I try to include everything, and I think it’s …

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