Digital gangsterism

Facebook acts like “digital gangsters” (Damian Collins, MP)

Digital authoritarianism

The Global Expression Report 2018-19 shows that global freedom of expression at its lowest for a decade. Gains that were made between 2008 – 2013 have been eroded over the last five years.

The 'Silicon Six' spread propaganda

The ‘Silicon Six’ spread propaganda. It’s time to regulate social media sites (Sacha Baron Cohen, WP)

Living in a “manufactured reality”

The expert who predicted Trump’s 2016 win (Sarah Kendzior) says we’re living in a “manufactured reality” (Mark Sullivan, Fast Company)

The EU doesn’t have a sense of its disinformation problem

The EU doesn’t have a sense of its disinformation problem. This report suggests the policy changes it can make (Nieman Lab)

"Contract for the Web"

Web Inventor Has an Ambitious Plan to Take Back the Net (Time) Contract for the Web

A.I. in your head

Connecting Brains to Computers Is a Shortcut to Dystopia (Evan Selinger and Susan Schneider, Medium - OneZero)

Social Media and Populism

Right-Wing Populism, Social Media and Echo Chambers in Western Democracies (Shelley Boulianne, Karolina Koc-Michalska and Bruce Bimber)

Artificial intelligence won’t kill journalism

Artificial intelligence won’t kill journalism or save it, but the sooner newsrooms buy in, the better (Hanaa' Tameez, NiemanLab)

Killing Net Neutrality

Killing Net Neutrality Was Even Worse Than You Think (Karl Bode, Medium)

Tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers

Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers (Patrick Howell O'Neill, MIT TR)

UmaSóGlobo 'Media Tech'

Reformulada, Globo avança na direção de se tornar ‘media tech’ (Valor)

Sowden: "The problem isn't data protection, the problem is data collection"

GDPR is missing the point, says Edward Snowden (ZDNet)

US 2020: another Facebook disinformation election

Facebook’s measures have largely failed to reduce the spread of viral disinformation on the platform (AVAAZ)

It is still incredibly easy to share (and see) known fake news about politics on Facebook (NiemanLab)

“The Facebook environment…muddies the waters between fact and fiction” (NiemanLab)

Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them

The more outrageous the lie, the better it is for Facebook’s bottom line (Ellen P. Goodman and Karen Kornbluh, LA Times)

Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them (Tim Wu, NYT)

Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg should pay price for damage to democracy (The Guardian)

The Guardian view on political advertising: time to regulate it, Mr Zuckerberg (Editorial, The Guardian)

Don’t abolish political ads on social media. Stop microtargeting (Ellen L. Weintraub, WP)

Elizabeth Warren’s New Facebook Ad Brutally Owns Mark Zuckerberg (Rolling Stone)

The UK’s election will put Facebook’s political ad policies to the test (MIT TR)

Mark Zuckerberg has defended Facebook’s decision to let politicians lie in ads (MIT TR)

Russia's Great Firewall

Russia Is About to Disconnect From the Internet: What That Means (Adam Smith, PCMag)

None seem to have learned the lesson of Facebook risks

Newsonomics: Will Facebook’s new news tab be a milestone or millstone? (Ken Doctor, NiemanLab)

Why publishers shouldn’t trust Facebook News (Josh Constine, TechCrunch)

Facebook launches its “test” News tab in the U.S., but you may not see it yet (Laura Hazard Owen, NiemanLab)

Save Journalism Project co-founder: Mark Zuckerberg embodies the 'antithesis of free expression' (CNN)

Media amnesia and the Facebook News Tab (Emily Bell, CJR)

Ignore Zuckerberg’s self-serving rubbish. Facebook must be regulated (Simon Jenkins, The Guardian)

Live talking about journalism and the launch of Facebook News with Robert Thomson, Chief Executive of News Corp.

Google (Big) Brother

Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite (Martin Shelton, Freedom of the Press)

Un exempleado de Google advierte de que la compañía puede acceder todos los documentos en su nube (El País)

In a corner of Brazil...

In a corner of Brazil, local reporters are switching to government jobs and the state is achieving “media capture” (NiemanLab)

FCC repealed net neutrality

Will net neutrality enter the 2020 debate after court ruling? (Andrew Wyrich, DailyDot)

Rise of the machines

La revolución tecnológica necesita ética o nos esclavizará (El País)

Da invisibilidade de Salazar à presencialidade de Caetano. Sobre os media, a televisão e a ditadura em Portugal

2. Cádima, F. R. (2019). Da invisibilidade de Salazar à presencialidade de Caetano. Sobre os media, a televisão e a ditadura em Portugal. Media & Jornalismo, v. 19 n. 35, pp. 197-209. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336826181_Da_invisibilidade_de_Salazar_a_presencialidade_de_Caetano_Sobre_os_media_a_televisao_e_a_ditadura_em_Portugal

Real news about fake news

The number of countries with political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 in the last two years (NiemanLab)

Why communities must fight for local journalism

Final editions: why no local news is bad news (The Guardian)

Human Capital in the Digital Environment

Human Capital in the Digital Environment 2019 Report: In the absence of a formal education system that is not keeping pace with the increasingly digitised world, the digital talent shortage is becoming increasingly acute, driving the skill gap ever wider.

Could language be the key to detecting fake news?

Purveyors of disinformation can be caught out by the particular words they use, according to new research (David Shariatmadari, The Guardian)

Digital Media_References

Cádima, F. R. (Suggested texts):

--Media, diversity and globalisation in the digital age. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320992499_Media_diversity_and_globalisation_in_the_digital_age

--El control de Internet y de las “voces liberadas” en la emergencia del paradigma digital
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289573226_El_control_de_Internet_y_de_las_voces_liberadas_en_la_emergencia_del_paradigma_digital

--Journalism at the crossroads of the algorithmic turn. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325219719_Journalism_at_the_crossroads_of_the_algorithmic_turn

-- A Rede na Estratégia da Aranha: “Pós-verdade”, Política e Regressão. Observatorio (OBS*) Special Issue: As Formas Contemporâneas dos Conflitos e das Apostas Digitais. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328602612_A_Rede_na_Estrategia_da_Aranha_Pos-verdade_Politica_e_Regressao

-- Uma análise do website da RTP e os ‘novos serviços audiovisuais’ da televisão pública”. In Cádima, F. R. (Org.). Diversidade e Pluralismo nos Média. Lisboa: ICNOVA, pp. 93-108.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332876136_UMA_ANALISE_DO_WEBSITE_DA_RTP_E_OS_NOVOS_SERVICOS_AUDIOVISUAIS_DA_TELEVISAO_PUBLICA

-- Revisão do problema da Legitimação do PSM no contexto digital”. In Cádima, F. R. (Org.). Diversidade e Pluralismo nos Média. Lisboa: ICNOVA, pp. 129-140.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332875907_REVISAO_DO_PROBLEMA_DA_LEGITIMACAO_DO_PSM_NO_CONTEXTO_DIGITAL

--Novos usos e desafios para os videojogos: streaming, questões de género e assédio online.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321138682_New_uses_and_challenges_for_video_games_streaming_gender_issues_and_online_harassment

-- O (des)controlo da Internet: para uma história da Darknet
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313427759_O_descontrolo_da_Internet_para_uma_historia_da_Darknet

--O (des)controlo da Internet: bad bots, astroturfing e flogging
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312220616_O_descontrolo_da_Internet_bad_bots_astroturfing_e_flogging

--Media, Cidadania, Big Data
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291338212_Media_Cidadania_Big_Data

--Sobre a Era Digital: do analógico ao “algorithmic turn
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276794926_Sobre_a_Era_Digital_do_analogico_ao_algorithmic_turn

--Novas convergências digitais: media, humanidades e artes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307776357_Novas_convergencias_digitais_midia_humanidades_e_artes

--A Google, o sistema de media e a agregação de informação
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277556663_A_Google_o_sistema_de_media_e_a_agregacao_de_informacao

--O Facebook, as redes sociais e o direito ao esquecimento
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277556597_O_Facebook_as_redes_sociais_e_o_direito_ao_esquecimento

--Política, Net e Cultura Participativa
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277711858_Politica_Net_e_Cultura_Participativa

Declaration of Digital Independence

Declaration of Digital Independence (by Larry Sanger). Social Media Strike!

New Facebook policies for upcoming elections around the world

Facebook: protecting the 2020 Census and upcoming Elections around the world. Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit – Progress Report

Second-generation fact-checking: working for system change

“First-generation fact-checking” is no longer good enough. Here’s what comes next (Laura Hazard Owen, NiemanLab)

@privacyproject

Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? (NYT)

The Privacy Project (NYT)

Bodies in Seats

At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives (Casey Newton, The Verge)

Internet Trends 2019

Everything happening on the internet in 2019 (Mary Meeker 2019 Internet Report):

In 2010, TV took up 43% of our media attention and an equal 43% of ad dollars.
In 2010, mobile took up 8% of our media attention and 0.5% of ad dollars.

In 2018, TV took up 34% of our attention and a still-equal 34% of ad dollars.
In 2018, mobile took up 33% of our attention and an equal 33% of ad dollars.

Facebook's Libra

Facebook Will be the Paypal of Crypto. Project Libra will launch soon and it will instantly change the intersection of chat and payments (Medium).

Onlyne anonymity is dead

Madhumita Murgia: How data brokers sell your identity (TED)

Facebook: o censor do arquivo

Os censores do Facebook em acção (J. Pacheco Pereira)

Análise do website da RTP (1998-2018)

Cádima, F. R. (2019). “Uma análise do website da RTP e os ‘novos serviços audiovisuais’ da televisão pública”. In Cádima, F. R. (Org.). Diversidade e Pluralismo nos Média. Lisboa: ICNOVA, pp. 93-108.

Targeted advertising and personal data protection

How to block targeted advertising on Facebook, Google, Instagram and Twitter (Wired)

How Ireland became Europe's data watchdog (BBC)

Weapons of mass destruction for democracy (fake news and EU elections)

Networks of Deception (Avaaz Report). "The size and sophistication of these networks makes them weapons of mass destruction for democracy, and right now they are pointed squarely at Europe" (Christoph Schott).

Junk News During the EU Parliamentary Elections: Lessons from a Seven-Language Study of Twitter and Facebook (Oxford Internet Institute).

How fake news is harmful

How Fake News Does Real Harm (TED - Stephanie Busari)

Digital humans that look just like us

Publicidade e Digital

Cádima, F. R. (2019). “A Publicidade face aos novos contextos da era Digital: privacidade, transparência e disrupção”. Media & Jornalismo, v. 19, n. 34, p. 35-46.

Facebook's new plan doesn't protect your privacy

Facebook's new plan doesn't protect your privacy, and neither does the FTC (Sally Hubbard)

Here’s How Mark Zuckerberg Sees Facebook’s New Era of Privacy (Wired)

Televisão pública e diversidade cultural em Portugal

Cádima et al. (2019). “Televisão pública e diversidade cultural em Portugal”. In Cádima, F. R. (Org.). Diversidade e Pluralismo nos Média. Lisboa: ICNOVA, pp. 55-72. http://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2019/04/ICNOVA_Diversidade_Pluralismo_total_v2.pdf

Revisão do problema da Legitimação do PSM no contexto digital

Cádima, F. R. (2019). “Revisão do problema da Legitimação do PSM no contexto digital”. In Cádima, F. R. (Org.). Diversidade e Pluralismo nos Média. Lisboa: ICNOVA, pp. 129-140. http://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2019/04/ICNOVA_Diversidade_Pluralismo_total_v2.pdf

Misinformation during the EU elections

More ways to find authoritative information in Europe (Google)

YouTube will label videos to help European users avoid fake news (Engadget)

Facebook suprime redes de ultraderecha

Facebook suprime tres redes de ultraderecha con casi 1,5 millones de seguidores a cinco días de las elecciones. Las páginas estaban coordinadas desde Barcelona y Lanzarote y habían logrado más de siete millones de interacciones en 2019 (El País)

Facebook's role in Brexit - and the threat to democracy

The "lobbyists' model"

You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead. [Rob O’Dell and Nick Penzenstadler/The Arizona Republic, USA Today and the Center for Public Integrity]

Internet Consolidation Opened the Door to Censorship

Titans like Facebook, Google and Apple defeat the purpose of a decentralized web (Elaine Ou, Bloomberg)

WSJ: Elevating Our Discourse

To keep discussions free of objectionable content streaming in from outside the WSJ community, the audience conversation feature will now be an exclusive benefit for our members. Audience Conversations will only be available on certain articles and for a set amount of time.

Blockchain Demystified

This IAB White Paper will focus on explaining the basics of blockchain and its potential applications for marketing and advertising.

Blockchain Presents 'Governance Crisis'

Ethereum Cofounder Says Blockchain Presents 'Governance Crisis' (Fortune). (“This is the first time ever where we’re flirting with the idea of a corporation without a CEO or a country without a president” - Charles Hoskinson).

Facebook begs to be regulated – but wants to pick how

Facebook is asking to be regulated but wants to choose how (Emily Bell, The Guardian)

Zuckerberg calls for more regulation of the internet

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg calls for more regulation of the internet (CNN)

Rethinking Journalism

Does Journalism Have a Future? (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker)
The biggest nonprofit media outlets are thriving but smaller ones may not survive (The conversation)

How the Copyright Directive reshapes the open web

Europe is splitting the internet into three (Casey Newton, The Verge)

Europe takes on the tech giants

Silicon Valley is where the brainiest ideas meet the smartest money. Even so, if you want to understand where the world’s most powerful industry is heading, look not to Washington and California, but to Brussels and Berlin. Our cover this week reports on how the European Union is pioneering a distinct tech doctrine that aims to give individuals control over their own information and the profits from it, and to prise open tech firms to competition. The EU is edging towards cracking the big-tech puzzle in a way that empowers consumers, not the state or secretive monopolies. If it finds the answer, Americans should not hesitate to copy it. (The Economist)

Change your Facebook password ASAP

You need to change your Facebook password right now (Wired UK)

Your Facebook Password Isn’t Safe. Neither Is Your Android Phone (Wired)

Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here’s What You Need to Know (NYT)

Facebook’s abuse of users’ data

Facebook faces fresh questions over when it knew of data harvesting (Guardian)

Academic Behind Cambridge Analytica Data Mining Sues Facebook for Defamation (NYT)

Yellow Vests flooded by Fake News

How fake news surrounding the Yellow Vests reached over 100 million views, and how Russia fueled the divide. (Avaaz Report)

"Machine journalism"

News Automation – The rewards, risks and realities of ‘machine journalism’ (WAN-IFRA Report)

Here’s how publishers around the world are using automated news (NiemanLab)

The state and Silicon Valley could be partners...

What If Google and the Government Merged? (Noah Smith, Bloomberg)

Blockchain Adoption Will Be Led by Permissioned Platforms

Blockchain Adoption Will Be Led by Permissioned Platforms (EU Report)

Facebook's manifesto is a PR stunt

Mark Zuckerberg's former mentor says privacy manifesto is a PR stunt (Karissa Bell, Mashable)

Zuckerberg has a different definition of “privacy”

Mark Zuckerberg has a different definition of “privacy” than you and me (Nikhil Sonnad, Quartz)

Alexa encima de la mesa

“Es más peligroso tener a Alexa encima de la mesa que a un señor observándote cada día en el salón” (Paloma Llaneza, El País)

Quietly buying and selling your personal information...

Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information (Steven Melendez and Alex Pasternack, Fast Company)

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America

THE TRAUMA FLOOR - The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America (Casey Newton, The Verge)

"Post-truth is pre-fascism"

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (Bodley Head, 2017)

Digital gangsters

Facebook is a law-breaking “digital gangster,” UK government report says (Arstechnica)

The Wired Guide to Your Personal Data (and Who Is Using It) (Wired)

The problem isn't the internet, it's Facebook

Key fact-checkers stop working with Facebook (BBC News)

Dear Mr Zuckerberg: the problem isn't the internet, it's Facebook (Guardian)

How Silicon Valley Puts the ‘Con’ in Consent (NYT)

Fake News vs. Trust Media

New study finds trust in traditional media (mostly) transcends partisanship

Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

From European public TV to the “alienation” of the Idea of Europe

From European public TV to the “alienation” of the Idea of Europe (F. Rui Cádima - RBCC)