Tag: media

• Five Years of VR: An Oral History from Oculus Rift to Quest 2

  April 2, 2021

  Oculus Rift launched in March 2016. Depending on who you ask, it’s “already” been five years or it’s “only” been five years since we shipped that first consumer VR headset.… more ›

• Going viral, the right way: what it’s like running the world’s best museum social media accounts during a pandemic

  April 2, 2021

  While museums around the world saw a staggering 77% fall in visitors last year due to pandemic lockdowns and restrictions, their social media followers grew as they became the primary way for institutions to… more ›

• How Investigative Journalism Flourished in Hostile Russia

  March 5, 2021

  The Russian language has introduced a few words that in recent years have been widely used and misused in English: disinformation, kompromat, Novichok. But the one that blows my mind… more ›

• Jack Dorsey’s Square, Inc. is buying a majority stake in Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal

  March 4, 2021

  Square, Inc., the financial services company founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, the high-fidelity audio and video streaming service led by Jay-Z. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313108/square-inc-tidal-majority-stake-jack-dorsey-jay-z more ›

• Spatial Software

  January 23, 2021

  Software applications can utilize spatial interfaces to afford users powerful ways of thinking and interacting. Though often associated with gaming, spatial interfaces can be useful in any kind of software,… more ›

• 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 ›

• Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2021

  January 12, 2021

  2021 will be a year of profound and rapid digital change following the shock delivered by Covid-19. Lockdowns and other restrictions have broken old habits and created new ones, but… 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 ›