#media-studies

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fromPhys
6 days ago

Labels are everything: New study reveals role of popularity in news articles

If something is most shared, we might assume that means many people had to read it and then deem it interesting enough or important enough to pass it on.
Digital life
from99% Invisible
1 month ago

Fishing In The Night - 99% Invisible

The Divided Dial explores the history and evolution of radio, focusing on shortwave's potential for global connection and its chaotic turns into propaganda.
Podcast
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

The big idea: do we worry too much about misinformation?

Despite the widespread belief that the 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds caused mass panic, only 2% of listeners reported reacting in such a way. Most understood it was fiction.
OMG science
Media industry
fromOpen Culture
3 months ago

How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 2

The absence of citation standards for online videos and television complicates our ability to validate information.
fromThe New Yorker
5 months ago

What We See in Lauren Sanchez's Cleavage

"In Sydney Sweeney, America has rediscovered that women can have boobs," noting her influence on the return of appreciation for breasts in popular culture.
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