"Contra el silencio y el bullicio invento la Palabra, libertad que se inventa y me inventa cada día". Octavio Paz, Libertad bajo palabra.
We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #464 More blows for Facebook’s cryptocurrency plans Facebook’s embattled cryptocurrency project, Libra, has hit a few more roadblocks this week. Firstly, The Financial Times reported that planned partners Mastercard, Visa, eBay and Stripe have pulled out, following the withdrawal of PayPal the week before. Facebook’s executive in charge of Libra is... Leer más →
The week in culture #05 The internet is full of content that can make us laugh, freak us out and fill us with hope for the human race. But it’s more than just trolls and lols. If you know what to look for, memes, tweets and everything in between can serve as an early warning... Leer más →
The Communication Initiative Subscribe | Unsubscribe October 10, 2019 Development Classifieds: Welcome to the Market Place for International Development! Follow @warrencomminit View The Communication Initiative on Facebook And please "Like" and "Tweet" all relevant pages below to your "Friends and Followers." THIS ISSUE INCLUDES: Job Vacancies Training and Events RFPs Books, Videos, Journals Development Classifieds is... Leer más →
How hate can fuel brand love While there are many amazing things about social media, it’s also true that there’s no getting away from hate. Social has become an arena for the normalisation of vitriol; a hotbed for trolls and ranting. Brands are not exempt from this. Community managers are often on the end of... Leer más →
We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #463 The OK hand emoji gets added to a list of hate symbols The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has added the finger-and-thumb OK hand emoji to its ‘Hate on Display’ list, after the gesture has been adopted by many members of the far-right as a symbol of white supremacy. The ‘new meaning’ emerged after an online... Leer más →
We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #462 Facebook announces Horizon, a new VR social network At its Oculus Connect event last week, Facebook announced the upcoming launch of its own social Oculus-based VR platform, called Horizon. Positioned as an ‘interactive world’, people will be able to create their own VR avatars and hang out with other players,... Leer más →
The Official Newsletter for the Media Ecology Association 2020 Call for Nominations for MEA Board Candidates to Stand for Election to the MEA Board of Directors. Today is the last day to nominate candidates for a 2020 MEA board member position. The Media Ecology Association's Board of Directors consists of 12 members elected by the Association's membership. The term... Leer más →
Everybody is talking about: Deepfakes Over the last few months, we’ve heard more and more about deepfakes – a technique for human image synthesis based on artificial intelligence. Here, our Creative Production Lead in Dubai, Amr Younis; Senior Creative Technologist in London, Sam Cox; and Innovation Director for Singapore, Arnaud Robin put their heads together to help marketers understand whether... Leer más →
The Drum Beat 779 September 25, 2019 Communicating about Youth, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Gender In this issue: * SOCIAL NORMS: STRATEGIES AND SCALE-UP * AYSRH PROGRAMMING IN ACTION * EVALUATING BEHAVIOUR-BASED APPROACHES * YOUTH AT THE CENTRE: PRACTICES, TOOLS * PLEASE WEIGH IN: CI SURVEY Adolescents and young adults, particularly young women in... Leer más →
