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