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Young creatives are using social media to shape the culture we consume. But what happens when they don’t own their work? By DOREEN ST. FELIX Kayla Newman started her Vine account to record herself commenting on the minutia and mundanity of high school life. This was nearly two years ago, when she was 16. For…
This tweet from Doctor Vox wonderfully underscores a point I’ve been making for years now: liberal discourse politics ensures a permanent erasure of the lower classes. This is so for two reasons: Lower class people, almost by definition, cannot engage in The Discourse. They do not have the education, credentials, or jobs necessary to do…
So much for best-laid plans. After hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal and public-relations fees, Jian Ghomeshi once again looked to be riding high, his reputation, if not fully rehabilitated, at least rejuvenated. He’d made some smart moves. Rather than rushing forward with an ill-fated attempt to come at the CBC seeking arbitration for…
MALLORY: WHEW. First of all, we should start by saying No, this is not a joke and Yes, this is really happening. We would never joke about this, we would not do that to you! But we are closing the site, and it’s funny to be talking about it with all of you guys now,…
So I have access to Facebook’s dashboard for Journalists: “Signal”. Facebook needs to approve access for Signal and it seems you need to work at a media organization to use it. With all the discussion around Facebook’s Trending I thought it would be interesting to talk about what is visible inside of Signal for Trending….
This Oct. 20, 2015, photo, shows a sign outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Google announced Wednesday that it will ban all payday loan ads from its site, bowing to concerns by advocates who say the lending practice exploits the poor and vulnerable by offering them immediate cash that must…
Mic CEO Chris Altchek. Credit: Mic AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 Like explorers on the high seas, digital media companies these days are looking left and right, high and low, for new sources of revenue. Advertising, branded content in particular, has become a huge business for companies like BuzzFeed and Vox Media, but revenue…
It isn’t unusual for Facebook’s advertising and content policies to change week-to-week as the social network looks for more ways to bring in revenue while carefully managing the user experience. But the constant evolution, particularly with video, may be starting to rile publishers who are looking for their own ways to make money from the…
Seven months ago, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank vowed that if Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, he’d eat one of his columns. Watch him keep his promise. (The Washington Post) The tweets and emails started immediately after Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday night: “You’ve got a promise to keep, bub.” Dana Milbank writes about…
It’s difficult to imagine that there was a time, not long ago, when advertising was said to be “dead.” In 2004, research company Forrester & Co, proclaimed that we had reached “the end of the era of mass marketing.” In 2009, Advertising Age, said “the post-advertising age is under way.” “Advertising Is Dead,” headlined the…