Tag: media platforms

• Meet Luo Tianyi, China’s biggest virtual pop star

  August 8, 2022

  Luo Tianyi is China’s most popular virtual idol among an estimated 30 to 40 holographic celebrities in the country. The trend originated in Japan, which has a long history of… more ›

• KOLs Are Dead. Long Live the Virtual Influencer

  August 8, 2022

  Luxury brands have long used influencers or key opinion leaders (KOLs) to get into the hearts, minds, and ultimately digital wallets of young Chinese consumers. Influencers, particularly those who enjoy… more ›

• Algorithmic fame

  August 8, 2022

  Social influence rests on the fact that, when faced with abundance of choice, we habitually rely on others to know what to buy, read, wear, or listen to. When these… more ›

• Colour & Shape: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Science Museum Group Collection

  August 7, 2022

  This article analyses a selection of the Science Museum Group Collection. We examined over 7,000 photographs of objects from 21 categories. The categories were selected on the basis that they contained… more ›

• Afrotopia — nataal.com

  August 7, 2022

  In this story from Nataal issue 3, Ekow Eshun, Selly Raby Kane and Sunny Dolat discuss Afrofuturism in fashion “Afrotopia is an active utopia that takes as its task the… more ›

• The war against printing

  August 6, 2022

  ‘The pen is a virgin,’ wrote Filippo de Strata in the late fifteenth century, but ‘the printing press is a whore.’ And that wasn’t the half of it. Born into a wealthy… more ›

• Meta Hires ‘Nope’ Star Keke Palmer to Try to Explain the Metaverse

  August 6, 2022

  Keke Palmer’s next role after starring in Jordan Peele’s sci-fi/Western horror film “Nope”: Hosting Meta’s “Are We There Yet?” — a video series hyping the “boundless possibilities” of the tech… more ›

• Cheatsheet: What you need to know about influencer fraud

  August 6, 2022

  Influencer marketing fraud is a growing problem in an industry valued at over $1 billion. Influencers — essentially social media stars with large followings — are attractive to marketers for the… more ›

• A day in the life of a Chinese robotaxi driver

  August 6, 2022

  When Liu Yang started his current job, he found it hard to go back to driving his own car: “I instinctively went for the passenger seat. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/27/1056472/life-of-chinese-robotaxi-driver/ more ›

• The End of Social Media

  August 5, 2022

  Last week, Meta announced that the Facebook newsfeed would be shifting towards an algorithmic, recommendation-based model of content distribution. Platforms like the massively popular (and still growing) TikTok and YouTube put far… more ›