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September 4, 2012 2:42 PM
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Communications Major is curated by KazzaDrask Media. I've been documenting changes in the way we communicate through online and mobile sources for more than a decade. Communications Major curates some of the shifts and nuances taking place every day as we rapidly find newer and occasionally better ways to share and stay connected. Follow KazzaDrask Media on Twitter @kazzadraskmedia. Visit our website at: www.kazzadraskmedia.com.
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May 5, 11:23 AM
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Residents of Oakdale, Calif., have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. These days, they’re often not sure what information to trust.
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April 9, 10:57 AM
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Since expanding the the carousel feature to allow up to 20 photos at a time, we are now being inundated with content that appears haphazard, but isn't really. Why?
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January 2, 12:25 PM
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The two major techbro obsessions—crypto and AI—have delivered mostly scams and hype. But this year, they managed to buy themselves a federal government.
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November 12, 2024 1:51 PM
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America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power,
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July 29, 2024 11:35 AM
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Try a few simple tips and lifestyle changes to minimize hand, eye and brain problems.
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April 30, 2024 3:09 PM
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For 12 years, the MTV reality series “Catfish” has traveled the U.S., presenting hundreds of intimate snapshots of what can go wrong when the heart mixes with technology.
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February 7, 2024 5:56 PM
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In 30 years as a tech reporter, Kara Swisher had a front-row seat to Silicon Valley’s obliteration of the media. In ‘Burn Book,’ she shares what she learned from covering Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and the other tech titans.
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February 1, 2024 4:54 PM
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Readers who have taken the plunge said it had improved their lives, marriages and mental health, and offered advice to those going without their smartphones for “Flip Phone February".
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January 19, 2024 2:48 PM
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From Tumblr to Gawker, the sites and voices that defined the 2010s are gone or changed. There is no happy ending to this story.
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November 27, 2023 4:51 PM
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TikTokkers are filming private conversations and posting them online. This has potential consequences.
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October 5, 2023 4:59 PM
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I don't know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering
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September 25, 2023 4:29 PM
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A completely correct theory, in which one of our greatest movie stars reveals humanity’s changing relationship to modernity.
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June 10, 1:09 PM
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Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level. When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see?
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April 30, 11:14 AM
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Beyond the aesthetics, [director Spike] Jonze predicted that we as a generation of Theos [played by Joaquin Phoenix] would be as disconnected and listless as ever, even in our desperate pursuits of real connection. We are turning to chatbots to be our therapists and best friends, with some even admitting that they trust and feel more viscerally with a robot than their IRL therapists and best friends. We want the raw experiences of forming friendships and falling in love, but we turn to the artificial to hack it.
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January 28, 11:53 AM
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Numerous studies have shown that fact checking has helped reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation online.
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December 11, 2024 1:32 PM
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An alleged murderer has become a folk hero, on all sides of the political spectrum. "But this was something different. The rage that people felt at the health insurance industry, and the elation that they expressed at seeing it injured, was widespread and organic. It was shocking to many, but it crossed communities all along the political spectrum and took hold in countless divergent cultural clusters. I’ve been studying social media for a long time, and I can’t think of any other incident when a murder in this country has been so openly celebrated. …" [excerpt by Zeynep Tufekci for the New York Times]
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August 22, 2024 11:33 AM
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A reporter from the New Yorker speaks with low-information voters—people who pay little attention to political news—about their perspective on the political race and why many of them favor Donald Trump. Conspiracy theories abound!
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June 21, 2024 2:30 PM
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Dr. Vivek Murthy said he would urge Congress to require a warning that social media use can harm teenagers’ mental health.
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April 22, 2024 11:58 AM
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Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.
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February 2, 2024 5:31 PM
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"Regular people need to be aware that through almost no attempt of their own, their lives could just suddenly blow up and become fodder for public consumption and judgment,” Kate Lindsay, writer of the digital culture newsletter Embedded, said in an interview.
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January 29, 2024 11:20 AM
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The past two years have been a whirlwind of changes at Netflix — and it’s all to transform the company into a revenue-driving machine that outlives other streamers.
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November 27, 2023 4:53 PM
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Google has a zero-tolerance policy for child abuse content. The scanning process can sometimes go awry and tar innocent individuals as abusers.
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October 31, 2023 10:54 AM
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It's been one year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter. And it has not been a good year. Dozens of studies of posts on X from multiple organizations have shown a similar trend: an increase in harmful content during Mr. Musk’s tenure.
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September 29, 2023 5:32 PM
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The rules for phone calls have changed. Here are the basics on when and how to make a phone call, and why you should think twice before leaving that voice mail.
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August 29, 2023 6:16 PM
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What did the internet look like before the dotcom bubble burst? Here's a look at the blocky, link-filled homepages of Apple, Amazon, and Geocities in 1999.
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