Most Teens Take Breaks From Social Media 04/28/2017

Having grown up in a world increasingly dominated by social media and mobile devices, teenagers may be developing a healthier, more practical relationship with technology than their elders, who
were already adults when the new technology hit.
That’s one takeaway from a new survey of 790...

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Is The Alt-Right More Honest Than The Left? 06/30/2017

Although most of our dinner-time conversation tends to orbit around schoolwork, the latest episode of this or that TV series or why in the hell Trump is still in office, we found ourselves the
other day chewing on a New York Times op-ed regarding a lesbian march in Chicago where
on Saturday,...

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Social Media Linked To Surge In Plastic Surgery 06/28/2017

Certain surgeons can thank social media for the rapid increase in spending on cosmetic plastic surgery, according to a new study from a British think-tank, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which echoes similar studies in the U.S.
While the increased attention to appearance...

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Ten Social Business Lessons from Warren Buffett

The recently completed Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting (#BRK2016) in Omaha offers lessons for integrating social media into business strategy.

1. Be patient. Warren Buffett joined Twitter just before the 2013 annual meeting during a live television broadcast. He has tweeted only eight...

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YouTube Star Pedro Ruiz III Shot Dead By Pregnant Girlfriend Monalisa Perez In 'Stunt Gone Wrong'

A pregnant teenager has been charged in the fatal shooting of her boyfriend in what she says was a social media stunt gone wrong.


Monalisa Perez, of Halstad, Minnesota, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Pedro Ruiz III.


According to official documents,...

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Here's The Man Behind Donald Trump's Bizarre Social Media Strategy

When Mitt Romney ran for the presidency in 2012, he required 22 people to sign off on every tweet sent from his account. 


For Donald Trump, during his presidential campaign and now at the White House, just one staffer helps craft his social media presence.


“His name is Dan Scavino,”...

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Proof Traditional Masculinity May Actually Be Dangerous

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 


The BackgroundThe pressure to be traditionally masculine can cause men to overcompensate when their masculinity is threatened. But...

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Your Health Care Information Is Insecure -- And Extremely Lucrative On The Black Market

This week, a malware attack struck Ukrainian computer systems and quickly spread to tens of thousands of machines across dozens of countries, including the U.K. and the United States. The proliferating computer virus, called Petya, raises the question ― as is often the case when data hacks,...

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A Future Farming Industry Grows In Brooklyn

BROOKLYN, New York ― Tobias Peggs is already cultivating leafy vegetables out of purple-lit shipping containers in the parking lot of an old Pfizer factory, just blocks from the projects where the rapper Jay-Z grew up.


What he needs to grow now is an industry.


Eight months ago, Peggs...

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88% Of Consumers Heed Negative Reviews On Social Media 05/01/2017

Can negative reviews on social media be the kiss of death for a brand?
Well, they certainly don’t help, according to a new survey
of 2,000 U.S. adults conducted by branding and marketing strategy firm Corra. It found a large majority of consumers will change purchase decisions based on...

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At Cannes LGBT, Racial Diversity Content Fall to the Fringe 06/28/2017

The advertising industry was buzzing in May when Ad Age reported that women would represent 43.5% of the judges at the Cannes Lions festival which took place last week.  A big shift from just
3 years ago, when in 2014 the total of female judges was a dismal 28.5%.  This is a welcome shift...

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No Ordinary Stay: Lodge Owners With A Heart For Community

The Laguna Lodge Eco-Resort and Nature Reserve sits surreally amongst a picturesque Guatemalan landscape at Lake Atitlan, which dominates at the top of media’s “most beautiful” lists. Laguna Lodge owners, Mayah Brandon and Jefferson Dent, harnessed some of the area’s...

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How Not To Commit Career Suicide On Social Media

Social media is now part and parcel of most of our everyday lives. The latest stats say that 63% of all adults in the UK are logging on everyday, with that rising to a massive 91% of 16 to 24 year olds, with 25-34 and 35-44 year olds not far behind. The percentages have been growing every...

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Trump Touts Putting 'Minors' Back To Work, Twitter Goes Giddy

A captioned video posted to Donald Trump’s Facebook page Friday shows the proofreading-challenged president (apparently backed by a staff with a similar problem) at Wednesday’s Iowa campaign rally boasting about putting “minors” back to work.


That’s all it took for Twitter to gleefully go...

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How A Mother's Age Could Affect The Mental Health Of Her Children

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 

The Background


There’s a lot of scary research out there on how parents’ ages impact their children. Some studies suggest...

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New CBO Score Confirms: Trumpcare Kills For Profit

To understand the winners and losers from Trumpcare you have to look no further than Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Tom Price’s stock portfolio. “Dr. Trumpcare” doesn’t have any stock in the American people.


Confirming this yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released...

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There's A New App Called YayYo. It's Like Uber, But For Empty Promises.

Ramy El-Batrawi has founded 27 companies that are now inactive or dissolved, hawking everything from relationship counseling to futures trading to van rentals to Alaskan fishing vacations, a HuffPost review of state records finds. He even ran a travel agency in Palm Beach, Florida, with a...

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Fyre Festival Failed To Disclose Deals With Social Media Influencers 05/02/2017

Even pirates know better. As any old swashbuckler can tell you, if you’re going to bring thousands of people to a remote island (unless you’re planning on executing them immediately)
you probably need to give them some food, water and shelter too. It’s basic, me wee millennial maties.
But it...

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AT&T Supports Blackburn's Proposed Broadband Privacy Bill 06/26/2017

AT&T is throwing its support behind a proposed online privacy bill that would
restore some broadband privacy rules passed last year by the Federal Communications Commission.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) would require all Web companies —
broadband...

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Can Wikitribune Solve The 'Fake News' Epidemic? Helping Media Organisations Regain Audience Trust

Was Napoleon short? Did a World War Two bomber land on the moon? Whether deliberate propaganda or innocent fun, ‘fake news’ has been around for some time. However, the explosion of digital content via a widening array of news sources has made it much more difficult to spot. In a...

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UK Lawmakers Threaten Social Media Cos With Big Fines 05/03/2017

The home of the stiff upper lip may soon be handing out stiff fines to social media companies that fail to remove illegal content in a timely fashion, according to recommendations from British
lawmakers publicized this week.
The prospect of major penalties in Britain is another red flag for...

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Facebook Previews New Rules For Publishers On Audience Network 06/26/2017

Facebook says it wants to help publishers achieve more regular, predictable monetization via its Audience Network, which allows advertising clients to extend the reach of their messages by delivering
ads on sites outside of Facebook itself.
To do that, starting in November, publishers will...

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Social Media And Mobile Tech: It Gets In Your Head

Answer me this. Can you get through this entire article without checking your phone? Try it and see how far you get. At average reading speed it will take about five minutes. Can you go five minutes without checking your email, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If not, you need to seriously...

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Capitalism Should Be Our Weapon of Choice in Cuba

Engagement or embargo? That is the question not just in Cuba but also in places like Iran, Russia, and China. Should we trade, or should we withhold our trade in hopes of changing the behavior of other nations? Which will have more impact?




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Facebook Collected Data On Insecure Teens 05/04/2017

Facebook collected data that would help advertisers reach teenagers who were feeling “worthless” or “insecure,” down to the age of 14, according to The Australian,
which first reported the news.
The revelation has sparked a storm of criticism in Australia and elsewhere, as critics accuse...

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Periscope Pushes Virtual Gifts 06/22/2017

Periscope wants people to start buying “Super Hearts” — virtual gifts, which they can then use to reward other people’s live broadcasts.
For free, Periscope users can
already show their love for live streams with little hearts, thumbs-up icons, and such.
Super Hearts are designed to...

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Social Media Is A Propaganda Powerhouse 06/21/2017

Forget cat videos and carefully staged vacation snapshots — social media’s real killer app is spreading propaganda,
disinformation and fake news, according to a new study from the University of Oxford’s Computational Propaganda Research Project.
The CPRP researchers examined the spread...

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Calling Darren Osborne A Suspected Terrorist Is Correct. Here's Why

Just after midnight on the 19th of June 2017, a 47 year-old man called Darren Osborne is suspected to have driven his van into a crowd of worshippers outside Finsbury Park mosque in London. One man died and 11 others were injured. After chairing an emergency Cobra meeting, Prime Minister...

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State Dept. To Expand Social Media Screening Of Travelers 05/05/2017

The U.S. government wants travelers to cough up their old MySpace handles, too, it seems.
This week the State Department revealed plans to widen social media screening for some visa
applicants, including a new rule that would require them to divulge all their social media handles from the...

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Time Inc. Moves Into Social Video, Targets GenZ And Millennials With 'The Pretty' 06/20/2017

Eager to capture the attention of 16- to-35-year-old beauty enthusiasts, Time Inc. has launched “The Pretty,” a new social video brand. The new brand debuted on Facebook and Instagram on June 15 with L’Oréal Paris and Maybelline New York as
exclusive sponsors. What’s notable is the all-video...

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Mum Guilt: How I Never Saw It Coming And Steps To Combat It

I’d never considered it before.  Never read an article or been part of a discussion that addressed it.  I knew I was going to be tired, emotional, busy.  I was told a hundred times how I’d be tied to my sofa, wouldn’t read a book for the next five years and how this was the...

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Brickbat: Lèse-majesté

A Thai military court has sentenced a man identified only as Wichai to 35 years in prison for Facebook posts it found to be insulting to the country’s royal family.


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Fyre Social Influencers Sued For Fraud 05/08/2017

Everyone enjoyed a good round of schadenfreude at the expense of the organizers and attendees of the Fyre Festival, an event billed as Coachella on a tropical island that ended up more like the
fall of Saigon. On a serious note, the promoters are lucky no one actually died.
That said,...

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Co-Opting The Platforms 06/13/2017

Don’t just leverage the major social platforms – co-opt them, says SourceMedia’s CMO Matthew Yorke. He explains how his high-CPM b2b publishing brands are using social analytics and their own first
party data to target users on Facebook and Twitter with specific content and...

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10 Tweets That Sum Up The Pain When Instagram Goes Down

You might be forgiven for thinking something devastating had swept across the UK in the last week, with hundreds of people taking to social media to bemoan the state of the world. 


That’s right, we’re talking about Instagram going down. Again.  


For the second time in as many months, our...

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Schools Try Blocking Social Media 05/09/2017

Hormonal cauldrons that they are, middle and high schools already had enough adolescent drama to deal with before the advent of social media – and some school districts are trying to return
to this slightly less complicated time, by blocking smartphone access to major social platforms while...

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Facebook Strikes Back At Marketers Suing Over Inflated Video Metrics 06/16/2017

The following was previously published in an earlier edition of Digital News Daily:
Facebook is pressing a judge to dismiss claims by marketers who are suing the company over
inflated video metrics.
The social networking service argues in new court papers that the marketers shouldn’t...

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McDonald's Taps Snapchat For Huge Hiring Push 06/14/2017

When you’re the biggest fast-food chain, nothing you do happens on a small scale – including recruitment.
McDonald’s announced it is looking to hire 250,000 people across
the United States this summer, with an advertising campaign rivaling any mass-market consumer brand. Where is the Golden...

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Theresa May Uses Advisors Like Human Shields And The Media Takes The Bait Like Seagulls

So today, Saturday the 10th of June, instead of focusing on Theresa May’s ineptitude, discredited standing and untenable status as the leader of our nation, the media are voluntarily making fools of themselves by obsessing over the ‘resignations’ (sackings) of May’s...

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British, French Elections Show Battle of Ideas Not Over Yet

A lot of people, including yours truly, have been getting election predictions wrong lately, and so it is time to eat some humble pie. In a previous column, I wrote that the French economic malaise was likely going to continue, because “If Macron does become president [of France], he...

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New Lawsuit Claims Fyre Organizers Tried To Quash Social Media Critics 05/10/2017

The legal woes of the Fyre Festival organizers, who helped hundreds of attendees feel like they were part of a real natural disaster for just a few thousand dollars per head, seem to keep
multiplying.
In addition to facing multiple lawsuits alleging fraud, negligence, misrepresentation and...

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29 Billion Connected Devices Projected; Video Leads The Way 06/14/2017

More things are getting connected, which is driving more digital traffic.
Mobile video traffic alone is expected to grow by 50% a year for the next five years, according to a new global
study.
By that time, mobile video traffic will account for most (75%) of all mobile data traffic,...

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Five Good Reasons To Take A Break From Social Media

How does social media negatively affect the brain? originally appeared on Quora – the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
Answer by Gergana Mileva, Entrepreneur, engineer, and consumer psychology enthusiast:
People...

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UK May Require Social Media Companies To Delete Data On Demand 05/15/2017

The backlash against big tech platforms in Britain continued this week with the news that the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Theresa May is considering a measure that will
require companies like Facebook and Twitter to delete all information from their records about young...

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Crocs Thanks Instagram Users For Sharing With Original Art 06/12/2017

Crocs, well on its way to a comeback, is stepping its humble clogs into a high-concept give-away, using Instagram artist influencers to take its marketing campaign to the next
level. 
Back in April, it launched a “Come as you are” ad campaign, “a new brand platform that is all about...

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Please Katie Hopkins And Piers Morgan, Stop Using Mental Health As Bait

We all love to boo a pantomime baddie, but that’s usually because they’re stealing a magic lamp or weaving destructive magic spells. We know it’s all made up and we know they’ll get their comeuppance. But yet again, Katie Hopkins and Piers Morgan are enjoying the boos...

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AP Launches Social Newswire 05/17/2017

With the world awash in fake news, much of it created and distributed via social media, the Associated Press is looking to ensure the integrity of user-generated content with the launch of its new
AP Social Newswire, which uses human researchers and technology to find and verify content with...

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'Forbes' Celebrates 100th Anniversary, Launches Snapchat Campaign To Reach Millennials 06/12/2017

Forbes is launching a
Snapchat campaign with a unique geofilter scavenger hunt. The goal is to reach mobile and millennial audiences and to celebrate 100 years since its first magazine issue.
The hunt,
titled “Find Yourself on Forbes,” gives users the chance to see themselves on the cover of...

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Bridging The Divide In The Face Of Terror

In the past few months, London has witnessed two shocking terrorist attacks centred on two major river crossings in the city. Considering the symbolic importance of bridges as metaphors in society, it can be no coincidence that these landmarks have been chosen. The Islamic fundamentalists...

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Did Conservatives Replace a 'Red Scare' with a 'Green Scare'?

Venimo/DreamstimeAfter the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, conservatives saw environmentalism as replacement for the bogeyman of communism—or at least that’s what FiftyThirtyEight science reporter Maggie Koerth-Baker declared on NPR’s Science Friday. In the ’90s, she noted,...

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Docs Want Warnings On Social Media 05/23/2017

Concern about mental health issues associated with social media is serious enough to warrant a health warning alerting users to the risks of excessive usage, somewhat akin to tobacco and alcohol
products, according to Britain’s Royal Society for Public Health, which recently published a new...

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Is Politics Ruining Sports? 06/08/2017

It’s been a tough spring for ESPN.  The company laid off 100 anchors, reporters, analysts and production staffers.  Then The Walt Disney Company announced that operating income at its
media division suffered a 3% decline because of ESPN’s declining subscriber base and higher programming...

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Most CEOs Still Not Using Social Media 06/07/2017

After months of silence, last week one of corporate America’s bigger mucky-mucks, Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein, virtually dusted off his Twitter account and tweeted for the first time
in response to President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement.
He wrote:...

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A Troubling Number of Young People Expect Social Security To Be a 'Major Source' of Retirement Income

The prognosis for Social Security has not improved one bit since Vice President Al Gore promised to put it in a lockbox nearly two decades ago, yet 25 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 expect to rely on Social Security benefits in retirement. According to Gallup, which...

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The Politician Of The Future Is A Digital Politician

Much discussion has taken place in Silicon Valley and whatever the Old Street roundabout is renaming itself now about how politicians use technology and they are not wrong to be talking about this. Things are changing. London will be getting its first ever Chief Digital Officer working out...

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Social Media Inspires Travel (And Jealousy) 05/31/2017

Ever since tourism became a leisure activity, part of the enjoyment of travel has always been flaunting it in the faces of friends, family, and colleagues, and social media has turned this casual,
petty pursuit into a full-on industry.
Most adults who travel today say they were inspired to...

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CPG Brands Should Heed Both Online, Offline Social Channels 06/06/2017

Social media may get all the buzz, but for consumer packaged goods, the everyday, more traditional word-of-mouth marketing may be equally — if not more — important.
A new analysis from Engagement Labs finds many consumer packaged goods brands perform much better in offline, face-to-face...

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I Cried When I Read The Disfigurement In The UK

The charity Changing Faces recently carried out a UK wide survey aimed at understanding the challenges faced by those with a disfigurement. The final report was released on 26 May 2017 as part of the first Face Equality Day. This report makes is completely clear why we need a whole day...

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Theresa May’s Call for Internet Censorship Isn't Limited to Fighting Terrorism

Andy Rain/EPA/NewscomYou’d think Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg himself was the driver of the van that plowed into pedestrians on London Bridge Saturday, the way U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is talking about the attack. He isn’t, but everybody across the world, not just in...

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U.S. Implements Social-Media Screening For Visas 06/02/2017

As promised, the State Department is finally adding targeted social-media screening to the vetting process for visa applicants hoping to travel to the United States. It is part of a broader effort
to prevent terrorists from infiltrating the country.
The social-media screening centers on a...

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After CEOs Sound Off, Brands Likely To Advertise Climate Messages 06/05/2017

With CEOs, politicians and foreign leaders continuing to blitz social media denouncing President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, some experts
are betting a wave of pro-environment advertising directed at consumers is likely to follow.
Although corporate...

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Blogging a PhD | HuffPost UK

It is a well-documented phenomenon that PhD students are in a mental health crisis. It is currently estimated that half of all PhD students suffer from psychological distress, and anecdotally I have seen many of my peers struggling with anxiety and depression. I began my PhD, like many,...

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Noam Chomsky's Venezuela Lesson - Reason.com

Venezuela descends into chaos. Its people, once the wealthiest in Latin America, starve. Even The New York Times runs headlines like “Dying Infants and No Medicine.”




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CA Law Targets Assailants, Cohorts Who Post Video 06/01/2017

The practice of bystanders recording video of violent events has always been fraught with ethical issues, including whether the bystanders should have intervened. In the social-media age, these
questions also include the intentions of individuals recording and sharing videos online.
On that...

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Microsoft Relaunches Skype, Adds Highlights Video Feature 06/02/2017

With Facebook and other rivals offering better video communication tools, Skype was in serious need of a reboot.
The Microsoft-owned service relaunched on Thursday with several new
features, including one that closely resembles Snapchat Stories.
Dubbed Highlights, the Stories clone...

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The Benefit Of Disconnecting In A Connected World

We are increasingly connected in every moment of our waking day. From looking at our phones in the morning to check our messages, news, emails, and Facebook feeds, to our jobs where most of us are expected to simultaneously reply to emails, whilst answering the phone, and getting on with our...

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