Tag: media platforms

• The Internet is for Porn

  January 17, 2021

  Giggles, eye-rolls and the occasional moral scold aside, porn is a gigantic industry that serves an equally enormous popular demand. The cavernous disparity between the demonstrably massive popularity of porn… more ›

• The State of the Platform Revolution 2021

  January 17, 2021

  It’s finally here! I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our annual report on the key themes of the platform economy for the year 2020-21. (Download link towards the end… more ›

• What social networks can learn from public spaces

  January 16, 2021

  The research began with the observation that in the offline world, healthy communities have traditionally been served by thriving public spaces: town squares, libraries, parks, and so on. Like digital… more ›

• The Metaverse is coming

  January 12, 2021

  We will see a shift in the way people play, work, learn or simply hang out in 2021. Some of this connection will move into the Metaverse, a digital place… more ›

• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

  January 12, 2021

  We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. We find that DALL·E is able to create… more ›

• He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.

  January 11, 2021

  Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed?  “Pods,” personal online data stores, are… more ›

• This Is Why You Heard About TikTok So Much in 2020

  January 4, 2021

  It’s been well over two years since TikTok arrived in the United States in August 2018, offering a rejoinder to anyone who thought social media had lost its way. The… more ›

• Joint report by the CAPS/IRSEM – Information Manipulation: A Challenge for Our Democracies (4 September 2018)

  January 2, 2021

  Information manipulation is not a new phenomenon, but it has taken on an entirely new dimension because of the unprecedented capacity of the internet and social networks to diffuse information… more ›

• Making Sense of the Facebook Menace

  January 2, 2021

  Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources of the highest-performing links on… more ›

• Why Is An Obscure B-Side Pavement’s Top Song On Spotify? It’s Complicated.

  January 1, 2021

  In this specific instance, there’s certainly a case to be made that Autoplay might actually be doing a service to the songs that it unintentionally favors — that it might… more ›