Blue Feed, Red Feed. What is this? Recent posts from sources where the majority of shared articles aligned “very liberal” (blue, on the left) and “very conservative” (red, on the right) in a large Facebook study. In 2015, the journal Science published a research paper by Facebook scientists (Bakshy, Eytan; Messing, Solomon; Adamic, Lada, 2015, “Replication Data for: Exposure to Ideologically Diverse News and Opinion on Facebook”, Harvard Dataverse, V2) which looked at how a subset of the social network’s users reacted to the news appearing in their feeds.
For six months, Facebook tracked and analyzed the content shared by 10.1 million of its users (who were anonymized). These users had identified their political views in their own profiles on Facebook. Analyzing these users’ political labels, the researchers categorized each as very liberal, liberal, neutral, conservative or very conservative. Are you saying these sources are conservative and liberal? No. No. No. PI TeensandTech Update2015 0409151. Aussie teens and kids online. The internet is an integral part of the lives of young people in Australia, with most going online regularly to learn, keep in touch with friends and have fun.
Born into an already web-connected world, many teens1 have been using the internet for the majority of their lives and fear not having access to the digital environment. This research snapshot provides an update to Aussie teens online, released by the ACMA in July 2014, and highlights how young people are now engaging online, the devices they use and the services and activities that draw them online. Understanding the levels of online engagement by young people is the first step in exploring related issues such as trust and online safety, themes that will be developed in future research. So, what do teens do on the internet, how have things changed, and how does their behaviour online compare to adult Australians? Devices and connections used to go online At June 2015, over 935,000 teens had gone online in the previous four weeks. Why Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine is Actually Way Better Than The 2016 Deadpool.
Social media news consumers at higher risk of 'information bubbles,' IU study says: IU Bloomington Newsroom: Indiana University Bloomington. First large-scale empirical analysis of online news-seeking behavior compares diversity of news found on search, social Dec. 14, 2015 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers have found that people who seek out news and information from social media are at higher risk of becoming trapped in a "collective social bubble" compared to using search engines.
The study, "Measuring online social bubbles," was recently published in the open-access online journal PeerJ Computer Science. The results are based on an analysis of over 100 million Web clicks and 1.3 billion public posts on social media. "These findings provide the first large-scale empirical comparison between the diversity of information sources reached through different types of online activity," said Dimitar Nikolov, a doctoral student in the School of Informatics and Computing at IU Bloomington, who is lead author on the study. In addition to Nikolov and Menczer, IU scientists on the study were Diego F.M. Proof that the news is scripted. The aggressive political interview: it's not just Leigh Sales and Emma Alberici | Jason Wilson.
Malcolm Turnbull probably thought he was being judicious and restrained when he suggested that ABC journalists Leigh Sales (of 7.30) and Emma Alberici (of Lateline) could be “less aggressive” and “more forensic” in their interviewing techniques. He may have shown us instead that inside every Liberal politician – leather jacket or no – lurks a dinosaur. His patronising advice, delivered in conversation with Andrew Bolt, the most relentless attack-dog journalist in the country, was reserved for the “lady journalists” – not their male colleagues Tony Jones and Chris Uhlmann.
Under the circumstances you had to wonder who might be more insulted: the professional women given gratuitous advice by a government minister or their male counterparts who, going by Turnbull’s comments, seem soft touches by comparison? It wasn’t always this way, and it’s taken time to get here. The quaintness of political interviews in the early years of TV broadcasting is one index of how far we’ve come. YouTube is 10 years old: the evolution of online video | Technology.
Allow me to make a bold statement: YouTube, at 10 years old, is the most interesting place on the internet. It’s not about the platform or the brand, of course, but rather the sheer amount of content it hosts and its diversity. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Not all of it is worth watching but enough of it is that you won’t live long enough to see it all. And there’s more to it than watching.
Whether you support a big-league sports team, have an insatiable curiosity for elevators or a serious candle habit, there’s a video – or an entire video community – for you. So, on the occasion of its 10th birthday, we’re exploring the evolution of this most fascinating and gargantuan of websites. 1. YouTube’s first ever video was uploaded on 23 April 2005. It’s perfectly inconsequential; site co-founder Jawed Kareem, blissfully unaware of what his bad elephant joke will come to represent. As life stories go, YouTube couldn’t have a humbler origin. Also, how retro is 2005? 3. TV, TiVo, OTT: How television-watching has evolved.
Per a 2013 Nielsen study, the number of American houses with TV units has been dropping since 2011. In fact, the U.S. had more than five million Zero-TV households in 2013, up from just over 2 million in 2007. People are making the switch from traditional cable companies to watching videos online on their mobile phones, or through streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. in a trend called “cord-cutting.” In an April 2014 report by Experian Marketing Services, they reported that “cord-cutting" had grown by 44% in the past four years, with 7.6 million households using high-speed Internet for streaming or downloading videos instead of traditional cable or satellite television This trend is only expected to rise in 2015. It seems that although the way in which we're consuming media is changing, we're consuming increasingly more of it every year. Australian music across four decades – how our popular music has changed over time | News.
Turn autoplay off Edition: <span><a href=" Sign in Beta About us Today's paper Subscribe Custom Search Australian music across four decades – how our popular music has changed over time An analysis of popular music trends suggests songs in the charts are probably getting shorter and we tend to like more electronic music than we used to and less guitar-based rock music • Australian Anthems: the country’s greatest and most significant songs <h2 style="font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold">Comments</h2><div style="padding: 10px; background: #ededed; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=" here to join the discussion</a>. Send to a friend Your IP address will be logged. 6 Subtle Ways The News Media Disguises Bullshit As Fact.
As anybody who has ever wistfully imagined Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly fighting to the death over a pit of lava knows, most media outlets are biased. Usually it's not part of anybody's grand scheme to brainwash you, but rather just the result of newsrooms being staffed by fallible, opinionated humans. The problem is they're generally not allowed to come right out and say they think the subject of their news story is a flaming douchebag, so they have to rely on subtle and sometimes downright dishonest methods to gently sway you one way or the other. When you browse through the news today, keep an eye out for... When someone uses language that implies a definite fact without stating it outright, they're using weasel words.
The most common are when you attribute opinions to unnamed strangers. Ads include statements like, "Combined with diet and exercise, many experts agree that this pill could drastically increase the size of your penis and raise your credit card score. " ...or "some": A history of video games in five anecdotes - A Short History of Video Games. The history of video games is not just a history of technology, but one of creativity. Dan Golding introduces his new RN series with five moments that changed the face of games, from Alan Turing's chess game to Pac-Man, a video game about eating, for women.
Humans have always played. That’s the first thing I go back to when thinking about the history of games and play—we can’t return to the start of this story because play actually predates any kind of recorded memory. Dutch historian Johan Huizinga articulated this perfectly in 1938 when he pointed out that animals, who have no culture in any usual sense, have not waited for humans to teach them how to play. Playing is one of the first things they do when they’re out of the womb. Kittens hide in boxes and puppies chase their tails. He spent more time deconstructing the game than I spent writing it! Some believe such play is how human beings learn, develop, and even evolve. Alan Turing played the first video game in his mind. Is Gender-Flipping The Most Important Meme Ever?
There’s an old analogy about boiling a frog alive. If you drop poor Froggy into a pot full of hot water he’ll jump right out again, the story goes; but start with cool water and heat it slowly, and the temperature will rise so gradually that he won’t notice until it’s too late. He got used to 29 degrees, and so didn’t register when it turned into 30 degrees; he got used to 30, and then it was 31, and so on. (This is not science, by the way. Do not try to boil any frogs to make a point.) Now, imagine Monsieur Grenouille had a friend, waiting in a pot full of cold water next to the stove. She sees the flames underneath him and calls out to him in frog language: “Monsieur, your pot is heating!
You’re being poached in there! Monsieur brushes her off with typically Gallic dismissiveness: “Mon oeil! In the wise words of Community’s Dean Pelton, sometimes we don’t see our own patterns until they’re laid out in front of us. Gender-Flip The Images Gender-Flip The Words Walk A Mile What Can We Do? At The Movies: Data reveals Margaret and David's likes and dislikes. Updated We analysed 1,925 At The Movies reviews to find out what David and Margaret really think about different genres, actors and directors. By Colin Gourlay and Matthew Liddy Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton say farewell to viewers on ABC TV's At The Movies for the final time on Tuesday night. We scraped 1,925 reviews from the program's website, and analysed them to find out what David and Margaret really think. 1.
David's top genre is animation; Margaret's is arthouse Over the past 11 years, animation has been David's favourite genre, with the critic awarding them an average of 3.586 stars. But animated flicks only win out by a narrow sub-decimal margin, closely followed by music, history and documentary films. Margaret's top-scoring genre is arthouse. "The animation is as breathtakingly beautiful as before and if anything, the sequel is funnier and sharper than the original thanks to a witty screenplay. " "Oh, David... " Here's the complete chart of genre rankings. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. More Proof That News is Controlled by a Central Script Writer. Privacy Lost - Four Corners. By Martin Smith, PBS Frontline Updated October 6, 2014 21:32:00 Monday 6th October 2014 When a contractor from America's National Security Agency (NSA) downloaded tens of thousands of top-secret documents from a highly secure Government network, it led to the largest leak of classified information in history - and sparked a fierce debate over privacy, technology and democracy in the post-9/11 world.
In leaking the files, Edward Snowden had not only exposed classified information, he also exposed how the US Government had co-opted major tech companies to help it spy on millions of people in the United States and around the world - including Australians. That surveillance did not simply mean detailing the source and destination of communication, but the communications themselves. The program has special significance in the wake of new government legislation in the process of being passed in Australia.
Abc.net.au/4corners Show transcript Transcript Privacy Lost - 6 October 2014 Australia. Australian Government to cut all funding to local games industry. The Australian game development scene has been dealt a massive blow overnight, with the latest Federal budget completely gutting the Australian Interactive Games Fund. The fund, announced in November 2012 by Simon Crean, had $10 million remaining for the 2014 – 2015 financial year. That $10 million has now been cut. “The Government will achieve savings of $10.0 million in 2014‑15 by ceasing the Australian Interactive Games Fund from 1 July 2014,” reads the official statement.
“The savings from this measure will be redirected by the Government to repair the Budget and fund policy priorities.” Senate Estimates: Who's advising Brandis on copyright policy? What’s the issue with Piracy in Australia? IiNet's Steve Dalby, explains why the Australian Government's approach to fighting piracy is completely backwards -- and won't work. This guest post contributed by our Chief Regulatory Officer at iiNet, Steve Dalby. Another news cycle, and yet again we see the recycled claims suggesting Australia is the worst nation in the world for Internet piracy. This may not actually be the case, but there can be no debate that work still remains to be done to effectively combat piracy. The Australian Government is readying legislation, if news reports are to be believed, which would require ISPs such as iiNet to send infringement notices to our customers while, at the same time, blocking certain websites which provide access for customers to download and share unauthorised content.
We believe the Government is heading down the wrong path if they’re serious about protecting copyright. Combating piracy So, what do copyright holders want? Let’s take a look at their proposals: What does iiNet want? How the year 1999 changed cinema forever. It's not an entirely perfect science, as you're going to discover, to determine one year as a turning point in modern cinema.
And yet for those of us who lived at the multiplex and assorted smaller screening houses in 1999, and looking back at it now, it all feels like quite a surreal, sudden changing of the guard too place. The ramifications of what happened at the movies in 1999 still continue to be felt today too, across blockbuster cinema and smaller productions. Furthermore, and this is one we've not discussed, 1999 was arguably the last stand for mid-budget studio pictures.
And it was also the year where this lot happened... 1999 changed the way films were marketed We talked recently, when we looked at how unusual films got through the studio system, about Warner Bros' conundrum with 1999's The Matrix. It had a revolutionary action movie, but it could only sell it in the tried and tested way: big promos, a big junket, and lots of bluster. 1999 changed the way action cinema was made. The Internet map. The Internet map. What The Crap is Next for Social Media? Damages of $1.9 million could backfire on music industry. DVD sales plummet in Australia. Media Use Statistics Resources on media habits of children. 216 Social Media and Internet Statistics (September 2012) 100 Social Media, Mobile and Internet Statistics for 2012 (March) 100 social media statistics for 2012.