Tag: media

• Synthetic Voices Study: How Do You Feel About an Artificial Announcer with an Accent?

  March 23, 2020

  Back in January 1927, Professor T.H. Pear of the University of Manchester ran an original experiment with the BBC on the perception of voices on radio to understand how people… more ›

• Zero Trust Information

  March 22, 2020

  Yesterday Google ordered its entire North American staff to work from home as part of an effort to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that leads to COVID-19. https://stratechery.com/2020/zero-trust-information/ more ›

• Movementradio.org uses cookies

  March 21, 2020

  is an international online radio station based in Athens that explores concepts of presence and motion focused mainly in the area of the Mediterranean Basin through myths of exodus and… more ›

• IRA in Ghana: Double Deceit

  March 16, 2020

  Russian operation linked to former IRA associates employed social media users in Ghana to target black communities in the US On March 12, 2020, CNN, Twitter, Facebook, Graphika, and two… more ›

• Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too

  March 3, 2020

  After a recent, extensive, and rather withering bout of bad press, the facial recognition company Clearview AI has changed its homepage, which now touts all the things it says its… more ›

• Tikked off: What happens when TikTok fame fades

  February 29, 2020

  As he was entering his junior year of high school last August, 16-year-old Sam Benarroch had about 166,000 followers on TikTok. It wasn’t the sort of following that regularly turned… more ›

• He Combs the Web for Russian Bots. That Makes Him a Target.

  February 11, 2020

  Ben Nimmo helped pioneer disinformation investigations. His work is now more urgent as misleading internet tactics spread. HADDINGTON, Scotland — In August 2017, Ben Nimmo was declared dead by 13,000… more ›

• The truth behind filter bubbles: Bursting some myths

  February 2, 2020

  A filter bubble is a state of intellectual or ideological isolation that may result from algorithms feeding us information we agree with, based on our past behaviour and search history.… more ›

• One year inside Trump’s monumental Facebook campaign

  January 30, 2020

  A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters by in San Francisco As the Democratic candidates for president spent 2019 battling… more ›

• Opening transmediale 2020 End to End

  January 28, 2020

  transmediale/ art& digitalculture newsletter Opening transmediale 2020 End to End Schedule bookmark Related events: Related texts: https://2020.transmediale.de/content/opening-transmediale-2020-end-to-end more ›