Character social networks in movies
We’ve seen a lot of network charts for Twitter, Facebook, and real people. Screw that. I want to see social networks for movie characters. That’s where Movie Galaxies comes in.
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The Landscape of Social Media Users —
As of December 2012:
- 15% of online adults say they use Pinterest
- 13% of online adults say they use Instagram
- 6% of online adults say they use Tumblr
- 67% of online adults say they use Facebook
- 16% of online adults say they use Twitter
New report out today with a detailed breakdown of social media user demographics, by individual platform: http://pewrsr.ch/XORHnZ
Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us here at Pew Internet.
Social media sites share the blame for the on-going harassment of women
Online harassment is an emotionally and even professionally destructive phenomenon that has impacted far too many women for entirely too long. Various public figures — including writers like Lindy West and Amanda Hess, as well as celebrities like Ashley Judd — have spoken out about these experiences, and their personal anecdotes are backed by facts. A recent Pew study confirmed that women are disproportionately targeted by harassers: 25% of young women online have been sexually harassed and 26% have experienced stalking on the Internet. Another study found that 70% of the people who reported severe online harassment between 2000 and 2013 were women.
The World Cities That Tweet the Most
The study, released by Paris-based Semiocast, tracked the number of tweets with location info in the month of June, 2012. New York is the top U.S. city for tweets, outranking Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, and Houston. San Francisco, the city that the social media company calls home, doesn’t make an appearance in the top 20.
Read more. [Image: Semiocast]
Andy Carvin, NPR’s senior product manager for online communities talks to Brian Lehrer about the role of Twitter in reporting and about his experience using social media to follow developments during the Arab Spring.
Mexico and DR, ‘close friends’ with US on Facebook
Facebook Stories just launched this cool interactive showing the degrees of separation between countries. The graphic shows which countries have the closest friendships connections on this social media platform. Not surprisingly, one of the main driving forces behind international connections among nations (even in social media) is immigration.
Mexico, Canada and the Dominican Republic are the three closest friends in Facebook with the United States. This means that users from this nations are using this platform to keep in touch with friends and family.
FJP: It’d be very interesting to see what kind of stories are being shared by users in these neighboring nations. Are they sharing news stories? Does this phenomena reinforces the idea of an incipient transnational audience?
Why the Social Media Revolution Is About to Get a Little Less Awesome
Facebook, as a symbol of the attention economy, had already changed dramatically. Before the IPO, the company’s value was a debate. After the IPO, its value was a stock price. One side had said all along that no company had ever achieved Facebook’s scale, reach, and mastery of an audience’s time and attention without being worth $100 billion. Another side had said that no company such an undeveloped business model could possibly be worth even half that price. We don’t know who’s right in the long term, but in the short term the pessimists are winning[…]
Some of the smartest and most creative entrepreneurs and developers of our generation are dedicated to making awesome stuff for you, and, bankrolled by deep-pocketed venture capitalists, their determining business metric was not “How will you make money from credit cards and marketing departments?” but rather: How many millions of people are you delighting with your exceptionally cheap product? It is hard to imagine an industry built on a more satisfying premise for customers.
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