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)