Tag: digital cultures

• Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr

  August 21, 2019

  It’s been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. It sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2013, then withered as… more ›

• The PG-Spot – Air Mail

  August 18, 2019

  The best thing about 2019 is that everything women have always hated has come into question. I’m mostly referring to all the things that were made by men “for women.”… more ›

• How deepfake porn bans will impact cloud compute providers

  August 4, 2019

  Multiple states have started to take on the legislative battle against deepfake pornography. In Virginia, a law against revenge pornography just got amended to include deepfaked revenge pornography. https://medium.com/@denisemelchin/how-deepfake-porn-bans-will-impact-cloud-compute-providers-eb23eab431b4 more ›

• TikTok’s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious.

  July 3, 2019

  China’s first big hit in the U.S. uses an advanced algorithm to personalize its addictive video-sharing app, and parent Bytedance’s enormous ad spending on Snap, Facebook and Instagram aims to… more ›

• ‘Be urself’: meet the teens creating a generation gap in music

  April 17, 2019

  It is a disconcerting experience to look at your tweenage daughter’s Spotify playlists and realise that you have never heard of any of the artists. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/29/be-urself-meet-the-teens-creating-a-generation-gap-in-music more ›

• Why The Future Isn’t Digital

  February 22, 2019

  In a famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, a family friend takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, and whispers in a conspiratorial tone “Plastics.  There’s a great… more ›

• When AI is the Product: The Rise of AI-Based Consumer Apps

  January 4, 2019

  There’s a new era of AI consumer-based apps spreading around the world, though starting from China. https://a16z.com/2018/12/03/when-ai-is-the-product-the-rise-of-ai-based-consumer-apps/ more ›

• The Times’s Capsule of History Goes Digital

  November 29, 2018

  The Times’s Capsule of History Goes Digital Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In a basement three floors… more ›

• Lev Manovich

  April 30, 2018

  Lev Manovich » Introduction for Lev Manovich, Теории софт-культуры [Theories of Software Cultures] (Нижний Новгород: Красная ласточка, 2017). more ›

• How the humble, all-purpose thumbs-up took over…

  April 8, 2018

  How the humble, all-purpose thumbs-up took over the world » If you’d asked me to do a trends report 20 years ago I doubt it would have said much about… more ›