Tag: media

• Apple TV+ announces “Neuromancer,” new drama based on the multi-award-winning science fiction novel by William Gibson

  June 19, 2025

  Apple TV+ announced it will expand its acclaimed science fiction offering with “Neuromancer” https://www.apple.com/au/tv-pr/news/2024/02/apple-tv-announces-neuromancer-new-drama-based-on-the-multi-award-winning-science-fiction-novel-by-william-gibson/ more ›

• The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher

  June 19, 2025

  Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internets-new-favorite-philosopher more ›

• Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine

  June 5, 2025

  Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content. https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/680371/microsoft-signal-magazine-interview-notepad?utm_content=bufferb6055&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer more ›

• Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

  March 5, 2025

  After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of… more ›

• YouTube Statistics Google Doesn’t Want You to Know

  February 15, 2025

  How a computer that ‘drunk dials’ videos is exposing YouTube’s secrets. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250213-youtube-at-20-a-computer-that-drunk-dials-online-videos-reveals-statistics-that-google-doesnt-want-you-to-know more ›

• Welcome, Podcasters! White House Wants New Media at the Press Briefing

  January 29, 2025

  In the delicate journalistic ecosystem of the White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the seating chart is the be-all, end-all of status. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/media/white-house-press-briefing-podcasters-influencers.html more ›

• The Secret Sauce of Chinese Social Media Apps

  January 27, 2025

  Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment. https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-algorithm-shopping-china/ more ›

• TikTok’s billion-dollar secret that wasn’t

  January 22, 2025

  Last week at Vox Media’s Code conference, Evan Spiegel, Snap’s CEO, touched upon the various pain points that currently afflict the developer behind Snapchat, resulting last month in the company… more ›

• Quality is a Serious Problem

  January 20, 2025

    A shift is underway across media. It’s happening on YouTube and Reels, Roblox and Fortnite, Soundcloud and Spotify and here, on Substack. On these platforms—across video, gaming, music and… more ›

• The Great Decentralization

  January 8, 2025

  For the past two decades, most online discourse has occurred on a handful of social media platforms. Their dominion seemed unshakeable. The question wasn’t when a challenger to Twitter or… more ›