There is a hunger for authentic voices—not the same handful of pundits circulating through all the media networks who know so little about so much, explaining the world to us and getting it so wrong. - 2016/04/28
An Insider's Guide to "Anti-Disinformation"
Andrew Lowenthal spent more than two decades defending digital rights, and watched as peers and partner organizations switched to an opposite mission called "anti-disinformation." An inside account
Andrew Lowenthal
The Racket 25 apr. 2023
Åsa Linderborg om ett journalistiskt experiment
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"Var tredje lokalredaktion har försvunnit de senaste tio åren och fler är att vänta, enligt en rapport från Södertörn. Två säregna redaktioner - kultur och ledare - försvann. Bonniers och med dem den liberala hegemonin stärkte ytterligare greppet.
Kulturminister Alice Bah Kuhnkes första åtgärd måste vara att tillsätta en haverikommission vid sidan av en mediautredning. Det är mer än ett bogvisir som har lossnat. Hela demokratin är på väg ner i djupet och vi med den."
The intervention by a state TV employee underscored how dissent is seeping into the public sphere in Russia, despite the Kremlin’s crackdown on anyone who challenges its official narrative of the invasion.
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"It’s a bleak new world that has such virtual girlfriends in it. "
Chatbots by major influencers like Amouranth and Caryn Marjorie let fans pay by the minute for virtual interactions – here, an expert on parasocial relationships walks us through the risks.
Dr David Giles, who specialises in media psychology at the University of Winchester [on parasocial relatioships]. “Typically these are between media figures and members of the audience. The media user knows the media figure intimately, but s/he doesn’t exist for them (other than as part of a homogeneous ‘audience’).”
To some extent, social media has complicated this definition, since audiences have more access to media figures, and can talk back to them by leaving Instagram comments or typing in a Twitch chat. “I’ve always argued that we should understand relationships as existing on a spectrum, in which ‘social’ and ‘parasocial’ are the endpoints,” Giles adds. “So a relationship can be ‘partly parasocial’ – like many with vloggers, influencers etc. Fully parasocial would be something like a relationship with a fictional figure (who has never existed) or a dead human (like Elvis).”
Tuesday, April 17. Timeline – 15:30 Moscow time, 11:30 GMT RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan : "RT is rallying a global audience of open minded people who question what they see in mainstream media and we are proud to premiere Julian Assange's new project. We provided Julian a platform to reach the world and gave him total editorial freedom. He is absolutely the right person to bring alternative opinions to our viewers around the globe."
The Post's view: "RAFAEL CORREA, a small-time South American autocrat, may smell a political opportunity. Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan populist who has been his political mentor, appears to be dying of cancer. That means the role of chief Yanqui-baiter and friend-to-rogues, which Mr. Chavez has modeled for the past dozen years, may soon come open. Mr. Correa, who has been president of Ecuador since 2007, has been doing his best to establish his bona fides: In January, for example, he hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Quito."
Storylab b – the Tacoma Public Library’s new digital media center for teens. “This really speaks to the way libraries are changing,” said Susan Odencrantz, the city’s library director. “More and more, there’s a movement toward digital literacy and upload