Some thoughts on News & Democracy
The Reuters Institute published their 2024 Digital News Report. It’s a great resource. Today I want to use it as an occasion to talk about some structural considerations.…
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Refractive Fragmentation — where did social media go?
“An X never, ever marks the spot,” Indiana Jones once famously stated. Only in this one particular case, it totally does: When Twitter became X, it very much…
Emotional Algos
Recently, this graph made the round on Twitter. It shows how news headlines have been getting more emotionally intense over the years: They appear to be written specifically…
Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen veröffentlicht Gutachten zur Lage der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher in Deutschland
Der Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen (SVRV) ist ein Beratungsgremium des Bundesministeriums der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz (BMJV). Vor wenigen Tagen hat der SVRV ein Gutachten zur Lage der Verbraucherinnen…
Synthetic Media: 3 mindblowing services that show that AI has found its way into consumer products
Over the last few months, a number of AI-based or AI-enhanced consumer-grade services have come out that really show how much artificial intelligence (or more specifically, machine learning)…
Monthnotes for June & July 2018
Lots of travel and a brief time off means a combined summer-ish edition of month notes for June & July. A lot has happened over the last 8…
Interview: Brand Eins
I was very happy to be interviewed by Christoph Koch for the current issue (07/2018) of Brand Eins. We spoke about the Internet of Things (IoT), how it…