Tag: media platforms

• Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It

  May 30, 2021

  As cars become computers with wheels, Apple is joining other tech companies in eyeing the $5 trillion auto market https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-and-the-end-of-the-car-as-we-know-it-11621656010 more ›

• A Family Team Looks for James Bond’s Next Assignment

  May 26, 2021

  As the James Bond theme thundered — ba-da, ba-daaaa! — and 50 camera crews clamored for a better view, a white Suburban with tinted windows rolled up to the Americas… more ›

• The “TikTok intifada”

  May 23, 2021

  Usually Palestinians and their allies struggle to have their narrative break through online. Not anymore. Israel unquestionably has the military advantage in its ongoing conflict with Hamas. But in the… more ›

• The Next Social Graph: Splits, Supports and Attributions

  May 23, 2021

  So this new graph isn’t about who you ‘friend’ or follow, but who you attribute, who you support, and who inspires and supports you. Not as social gestures, but inscribed… more ›

• Why Messenger is Facebook’s key to the future of communication

  May 16, 2021

  The reason why messaging apps are so popular and continue to grow, and more and more people are spending more and more time on them, is just because communicating with… more ›

• With Gay Burger, the pop-up model got an influencer twist

  May 16, 2021

  Within a few days, Gay Burger’s viral moment passed. Now, the brand is no longer operational. Its brief peak resembled the product drop approach of a big brand like Supreme,… more ›

• The Rise of Private Spies

  May 16, 2021

  There’s nothing new about private investigators and operatives; as early as the nineteenth century, mill and mine owners paid the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to infiltrate and disrupt labor union movements. But… more ›

• Data isn’t oil, so what is it?

  May 16, 2021

  All these metaphors imagine public data as a huge, passive, untapped resources – lakes of stuff that only has value when it is extracted and processed. But this framing completely… more ›

• William Davies, The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Social Media, NLR 128, March–April 2021

  May 16, 2021

  In the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, critical theorists paid renewed attention to what Charles Taylor famously called ‘the politics of recognition’. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii128/articles/william-davies-the-politics-of-recognition-in-the-age-of-social-media more ›

• Apple robbed the mob’s bank

  May 16, 2021

  Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page. https://mobiledevmemo.com/apple-robbed-the-mobs-bank/ more ›