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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Amid drought, farmers flood social media
Web sites devoted to collecting mug shots are popping up everywhere. At first glance, the online culture of mug-shot voyeurism would seem to be the logical extension of our eternal quest for celebrity cellulite.
…Mug-shot sites brand themselves as a public service, and offer the requisite disclaimers that everyone pictured on them is innocent until proven guilty. But, of course, mug shots are the very image of guilt, and seem almost proof of it, which is why some states caution judges and prosecutors against submitting them to juries. And it’s for this precise reason—instant lurid appeal—that mug-shot blogs can be profitable.
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.
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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Anyone with access to technology, Internet, qwerty keyboard, etc. can organize an impact reaching campaign that has the possibility of benefiting the society.
Nigerian Blogger Blossom Nnodim Talks ‘Social Media for Social Good’
The War Over Obama’s Election Tech
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) wants to keep the technology behind Obama’s impressive web presence a secret.
Obama’s website is a beautiful fundraising machine that is being credited for much of his success during the last election. The social media laden site has given him a reputation of being America’s first truly social president.
For both ethical and developmental reasons the team of tech superstars that built and managed the site are calling for the programming, which was developed off of pre-existing open source software, to be made public.
Should other people be able to build off of the technology that helped Obama get elected or should it be kept under wraps?
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HUGE NEWS: Democrats in Congress have introduced new legislation that would restore Net Neutrality!
Tell Congress: Keep the Internet WEIRD — and SAVE NET NEUTRALITY
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