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)