11/12/15

Surveying The Digital Future

The 2015 Digital Future Report includes findings on more than 180 issues in five major categories: Internet users and non-users, media use and trust, consumer behavior, communication patterns, and social effects. (Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg).

08/12/15

Museum of Feelings

The Museum of Feelings actually feels things. Its unique exterior reacts to social media and real-time data to reflect New York's ever-changing mood in vivid color.

“Delete” Does Not Mean Deleted

“Delete” Does Not Mean Deleted. 4 Steps to Protect Your Privacy (Kerry O'Shea Gorgone, B2C)

Ciberperiodismo portugués

Milton Cappelletti Júnior "¿La infografía cabe en los dispositivos móviles? Estudio de caso sobre el diseño responsivo de infografías en el diario Observador.pt" e Julio Costa Pinto "La influencia de la Web 2.0 en el ciberperiodismo portugués", Nuevos perfiles y audiencias para una democracia participativa. Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de Ciberperiodismo y Web 2.0. Bilbao, 9 y 10 de Noviembre de 2015.

28/11/15

Google’s On Page Ranking Factors

Google’s On Page Ranking Factors: Are They Fact Or Myth? (SocialMediaToday). If you’re a website owner, one of your primary goals will be to optimize your site to ensure it ranks high on Google in order to increase organic traffic.

27/11/15

Data Science Machine

El ‘big data’ ya no necesita a los humanos (El País). Un software es capaz de realizar predicciones a partir de grandes volúmenes de datos digitales sin intervención humana y en una fracción del tiempo requerido por un analista.

26/11/15

Telegraph stories affected by EU 'right to be forgotten'

When the Court of Justice of the European Union decided in May 2014 that individuals have the right to ask search engines like Google to remove information deemed "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive" from their search results, many warned that it would open the floodgates to an era of mass censorship...Telegraph stories affected by EU 'right to be forgotten'

19/11/15

YouTube is the new children’s TV

Why YouTube is the new children’s TV... and why it matters (The Guardian). Kids are generating billions of video views on the online video service, but it’s raising some talking points for parents

12/11/15

11/11/15

Media use by tweens and teens

THE COMMON SENSE CENSUS: MEDIA USE BY TWEENS AND TEENS. Tweens and teens today place an enduring value on two media activities in particular: watching TV and listening to music. Whether downloaded, streamed, or watched or listened to “live,” or whether it comes through a transistor radio, a television set, a tablet, or a smartphone.

03/11/15

ICTs – The world in 2015

Over the past 15 years, ICTs have grown in an unprecedented way, providing huge opportunities for social and economic development. Today, there are more than 7 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, up from 738 million in 2000. Globally, 3.2 billion people are using the Internet, of which two billion live in developing countries. ITU ICT Facts and Figures – The world in 2015 (pdf format)

31/10/15

SXSW online-harassment summit

SXSW owns up to 'mistake,' schedules harassment summit. The popular interactive festival will hold an all-day summit after backlash for canceling sessions on online harassment and the objectification of women in gaming.