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Crowdsourcing with TripAdvisor
This analysis was completed for an assignment as part of a Wharton Executive Education paper I am completing. It discusses the pros and cons of a crowdsourcing business model.
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Information Disruption: Ahead of the Machine
Curation of articles on information warfare, computational propaganda, psychological operations, disinformation, fake news, hate, right versus left, technology overload, attention, hyper-partisanship, humane technology and dignity. * Aviv Ovadya @metaviv "The Terrifying Future of Fake News" [www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-terrifying-future-of-fake-news] * Renee DiResta "Social Media Disinformation" [https://www.
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Outside the Bubble
A brilliant way to conglomerate the threads into particular topic areas. Great idea, see it here! [https://www.buzzfeed.com/outsideyourbubble] > BuzzFeed News is launching an experiment this week called "Outside Your Bubble," an attempt to give our audience a glimpse at what's happening outside
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Facebook News Feed: Redirecting the stream
A simple question: > "If censorship is not practiced at Facebook then how come porn doesn't make it into the newsfeed?" Facebook isn't 4chan, it censors content for the public good (values of a civil society). Certain labels are applied to stories (pieces of
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Haka the Legend Ltd
Haka the Legend is a New Zealand Māori culture performing arts and experience company established in 1993.
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Evil? Your website is competing against Google's search results
Journalists have raised questions about the actual definition of what Google considered "evil". What is the motivation to keep a website going if less people visit because they find everything they need in only search results? While developing websites and undertaking search engine optimization work I have come
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Distortion: the Media's Role in the Political Process
David versus Goliath. How can we help to amplify the voice of the underdog in a media empire? The news media today does not just report the news but also represents the views of certain segments of society. The news media is not a place to absorb informed opinion, simply
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Zoom.sx
Zoom at its root is about finding answers, or trying to find out answers to questions people are wondering about.
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The future of news is filtering trash
Pretty stunned by the gall of young people in Veles Macedonia making thousands each month from pro-Donald Trump anti-Obama news, see news articles here [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=macedonia+fake+news&t=opera&ia=web]. I am also disappointed that corporate news media are continually retweeting Trumps inflationary
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Social media, the confusion of truth and social progress
To put this in everyday language, Karl Marx believed that capitalism would eventually destroy itself and lead to a better form of social organisation with greater vitality for the people in the society. > "For Marx, class antagonisms under capitalism, owing in part to its instability and crisis-prone nature,
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The problem with oil
Everyday we fill-up that gasoline tank, we support the oppression of financial freedom, we support the oppression of the middle-east, the degradation of the environment and worse, we keep in place a political regime (across OECD nations) that is based on financial outcomes rather than healthy well-being of it'
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Republicans destroy democrats
Six ways Team Trump defeated Team Hillary and six things Democrats can do to claw power back. Yes, Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton by 279 to 218. So how did the Republican's 'team Trump' claim this historic walloping