Media's dependence on Facebook

Is media's dependence on Facebook an unavoidable sacrifice on the altar of digital transition? (EJO)

Web: 'The system is failing'

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' (Guardian)

The uberization of journalism

Civil: Self-Sustaining Journalism (Medium)

The uberization of journalism: Blockchain technology (OpenMind)

Alphachain: a self-potentiating, decentralised crypto-spool for independent journalism (FT)

The Power of Personalization

News personalization could help publishers attract and retain audiences—in the process making political polarization even worse (Nieman Lab).

Net States Rule the World

Net States Rule the World; We Need to Recognize Their Power (Wired)

Gigantes da tecnologia precisam de novas regras, diz criador da Web Summit (Folha de S. Paulo)

Fake News (Talks & Videos)

How fake news does real harm | Stephanie Busari

How Fake News Grows in a Post-Fact World | Ali Velshi

Τhe truth about fake news and how to protect against it | Jonathan Albright

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson

How false news can spread - Noah Tavlin

How to seek truth in the era of fake news | Christiane Amanpour

Fake news machine gears up for 2020 | Isa Soares

Cryptojacking & hijacked gadgets

Why Cryptojacking Is The Next Big Cybersecurity Threat (Fortune)

The Reaper IoT Botnet Has Already Infected a Million Networks (Wired)

Jóvenes y redes sociales

Último número da revista TELOS: Jóvenes y redes sociales

YouTubers Made in PT

Linha da Frente (RTPplay)

Carta aberta – Pedido de ajuda aos youtubers portugueses (Rute Agulhas, Observador)

Youtubers portugueses (rr)

Top10 (DN)

Digital Future

Digital Future Report: the annual study of the impact of digital technology on American users and non-users (Center for the Digital Future).

Facebook and Democracy

What Facebook Did to American Democracy (Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic)

More high-quality and distinctive programmes for BBC's audiences

The BBC must broadcast more original UK programmes under new rules designed to ensure the broadcaster offers high-quality, distinctive programmes for its entire audience. New quotas in areas including arts, music, comedy and children's.

Near future

Google CEO Sundar Pichai: 'I don't know whether humans want change that fast' (The Guardian)

Algorithms Have Already Gone Rogue (Wired)

Critical Citizenship and Social Empowerment

Critical Citizenship and Social Empowerment in the Emerging Cybersociety (Revista Comunicar)

I asked Tinder for my data

I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets (The Guardian)

Report for America

Report for America wants to place (and help pay for) young reporters in local newsrooms that need them (NiemanLab)

Heliograph

This robot named Heliograf wrote hundreds of stories for the Washington Post last year (Digital Trends)

From Russian, with bots, bytes and bars...

How Putin keeps the internet under state control (Wired)

Russia’s next fake news campaign could devastate the economy (Wired)

Post-Snowden Internet Policy

See Media and Communication (open access journal, all articles are freely accessible).

The first two rounds of Google’s DNI

Here are the results of the first two rounds of Google’s European Digital News Innovation Fund (NiemanLab)

Google is funding a new software project that will automate writing local news (Journalists, beware! - recode)

Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion

Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary (Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard, University of Oxford)

How to verify social media information

Crises, Rumours and Reposts: Journalists’ Social Media Content Gathering and Verification Practices in Breaking News Situations (Media and Communication)

Mestrado FCSH/NOVA: Novos Media e Práticas Web

Inscrições abertas até 16 de Junho. Mais info: aqui.
Novo seminário em parceria com o CITI: Atelier de design e produção de conteúdos para a web.

Controlling AI Will Be Impossible

Human-Level AI Is Right Around the Corner—or Hundreds of Years Away (Spectrum)

If humans are no longer the smartest creatures on the planet, we can reimagine our lives (Guardian)

Scientists Say Controlling A.I. Will Be Impossible for 3 Reasons (Inverse)

News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days

Trump’s coverage during his first 100 days set a new standard for negativity. Of news reports with a clear tone, negative reports outpaced positive ones by 80 percent to 20 percent (Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media).

Fake Videos

Artificial Intelligence can now use a person's image and audio to create fake videos (FirstPost)

Americans don't fact-check the information they read

9 out of 10 Americans don't fact-check information they read on social media (ZDNet)

Critical Literacy in the Age of Clickbait (ASCD)

IA & Economía

La inteligencia artificial obliga a redefinir la economía (El País)

Facebook: how to spot “false news”

Facebook publishes fake news ads in UK papers (BBC)

Facebook deletes thousands of UK accounts in crackdown on fake news (Telegraph)

What causes fake news, and what are its solutions?

What causes fake news, and what are its solutions? Journalists from NPR, CNN and the founder of PolitiFact weigh in (Poynter).

Fake News & Algoritmos [FCSH/NOVA]

Notícias Falsas (​Fake-news​) e algoritmos: responsabilidade editorial e liberdade de expressão no mundo on-line: 24 de Maio, Auditório 1 da FCSH/NOVA. Ver Programa

Facebook vs Fakebook

Facebook Admits It’s Being Used by Political Actors to Manipulate Opinion (Fortune).

Facebook report admits foreign governments are influencing discourse. They're using fake accounts to manipulate public opinion on the network (Engadget).

A new database of fake news sites

A new database of fake news sites details how much fakery has spread from Trump v. Clinton to local news (Nieman Lab)

The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles

The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News (Digiday)

Voters didn’t get the information they needed during the U.S. election

Unless The Government Acts Soon, Fake News Will Produce Deep Information Inequality (HP, Philip N. Howard)

A Field Guide to Fake News

What does fake news tell us about life in the digital age? Not what you might expect (NiemanLab)

Fake News and the Digital Duopoly

Google and Facebook have created a dysfunctional and socially destructive information ecosystem. Fake news, piracy and digital duopoly of Google and Facebook (WSJ)

The information war

Kate Starbird: The information war is real, and we’re losing it (Seattle Times)

Goodbye internet privacy

Goodbye internet privacy, we hardly knew you (Mashable)

Congress just killed your right to online privacy (Next Web)

Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers (ArsTechnica)

Congress Is About To Give Away Your Online Privacy (Wired)

The tribalization of information

Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology (David Roberts, Vox)

The Future of Multidimensional Video Capture

Conferência de Brian Cabral, Director de Engenharia do Facebook. Sala Multiusos, Biblioteca FCT/NOVA, dia 3 de Maio às 12h. FCT/NOVA, Monte da Caparica.

The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine

There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy. (Scout)

A Fake News Tsunami...

Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami. Where Did It Come From? (Huffington Post)

The best thing that happened to journalism

Fake news’: the best thing that’s happened to journalism (Charlie Beckett)

EU @ SXSW, AUSTIN

Join EU@SXSW to learn more about the European Union and some of our key initiatives such as the Digital Single Market

Lies, propaganda and fake news

Lies, propaganda and fake news: A challenge for our age (Richard Gray, BBC).

Donald Trump and the media: Can journalism escape this deadly paradox and get its groove back? (Salon)

Medios de comunicación, pluralismo y diversidad en Europa

Cádima, F. R. (2017). "Medios de comunicación, pluralismo y diversidad en Europa". TELOS nº 106. Febrero 2017. https://telos.fundaciontelefonica.com/archivo/numero106/medios-de-comunicacion-pluralismo-y-diversidad-en-europa/

Fake news, fact-ckecking

Bellingcat ; CrossCheck ; CrowdTangle ; Dig Deeper ; Emergent ; Eyewitness Media Hub ; Facebook Journalism Project ; Fact-checkers Code of Principles ; FirsDratft ; Google News Lab

What is fake news?

What is fake news? Its origins and how it grew in 2016 (James Carson, Telegraph)

Fake news

Does the rise of false information signal a dark age of the internet? (Jimmy Wales, The Guardian)

The Future of Comments

With help from technology, third parties, and improved moderation, newsrooms are revamping comment sections and eyeing them as an integral part of their audience engagement strategies (NiemanReports)

The Chinese News App with 600 Million Users

The Chinese News App with 600 Million Users That You’ve Never Heard Of (MIT Technology Review).Toutiao uses artificial intelligence to curate headline recommendations. Inside the offices of Toutiao, it’s hard to tell you’re just outside of Beijing and not in the heart of Silicon Valley.

xCoAx 2017

xCoAx 2017: 5th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X. 6-7 July 2017, Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline for submissions extended to 12 February.

O (des)controlo da Internet: para uma história da Darknet

Cádima, F. R. (2017), "O (des)controlo da Internet: para uma história da Darknet", Revista Portuguesa de História da Comunicação, Número 0, Janeiro de 2017, pp. 96-107.
http://www.revistahc.sopcom.pt/ficheiros/20170204-frc.pdf

Outros textos: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francisco_Cadima

How to build a successful hyperlocal

How to build a successful hyperlocal in just six months – a case study (Matt Abbott - Cardiff University’s Centre for Community Journalism - C4CJ).

Media Art

Museu do Chiado lança concurso para artistas dos novos media (deadline: 17 de fevereiro). Regulamento está disponível em: www.sonae-mediart.com

Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles (Bharat N. Anand, HBR)

Hyperlocal news

Hyperlocal news publishers across the UK

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube y Microsoft se unen contra el terrorismo

Las cuatro grandes tecnológicas compartirán una base de datos para detectar y eliminar el contenido extremista de las redes (El País)