Tag: media platforms

• Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue

  April 13, 2019

  The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue. Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html more ›

• The Hottest App in China Teaches Citizens About Their Leader — and, Yes, There’s a Test

  April 8, 2019

  CHANGSHA, China — Inside a fishing gear store on a busy city street, the owner sits behind a counter, furiously tapping a smartphone to improve his score on an app… more ›

• The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside The Times’s Printing Plant

  April 8, 2019

  Consider the newspaper, the physical object, printed on processed wood pulp, shot upward on rollers at high speed as ink is applied, gathered and folded and bundled, dropped off at… more ›

• Squaring up: how Insta-fashion is changing the way we shop

  April 8, 2019

  We’ve all bought them at some time or another: the perfect pair of shoes. Stylish, comfortable – the kind you wear with everything until they fall apart, and you have… more ›

• The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity

  April 4, 2019

  GeoCities, Vine, Friendster–communities live, thrive, and often die on the net. But the two-week timeframe in which content will disappear from Tumblr is unprecedented, says Jason Scott. https://www.fastcompany.com/90279321/the-frantic-unprecedented-race-to-save-700000-nsfw-tumblr-for-posterity more ›

• When the Web Loses Its Memory

  April 4, 2019

  Diana poured her passionate fandom into Thorvaenn, her Tumblr account, for years. Marvel and Thor in particular became the primary focus for the GIFs she made, for her meticulous recommendations,… more ›

• Porn companies are embracing crowdfunding

  April 4, 2019

  The flood of free porn online has made things hard for professionals who are looking to make a living. For every video-on-demand service, there are dozens of free alternatives and… more ›

• Workplace automation will hit women harder than men

  April 3, 2019

  Today, unlike in the past, workers can meetings from anywhere, or control complex production processes with the push of a button. Technology has dramatically altered what it means for many… more ›

• The Chinese takeover of Indian app ecosystem

  April 1, 2019

  For those trying to make sense of the Chinese dominance of the Indian app ecosystem, these are familiar statements. Yet, until about a year or a little more ago, these… more ›

• Mark Zuckerberg

  April 1, 2019

  This year I’m hosting a series of discussions about the future of technology and society. This time I sat down with Mathias Döpfner in Berlin. He started… https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10107028379388161 more ›