The Echo Chamber Effect

Alan Martin from Wired magazine discusses the Echo Chamber Effect - the idea that we surround ourselves with like minded people on social media. This leads, Martin argues, to entrenched and polemical identities being expressed on social media.

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The poor pay for Internet services with their identity data...

Evgeny Morozov discusses the global control of identity data by Facebook and Google. The argument seems Marxian in direction - social media is controlled by a select band of American based organisations who are monetising the data of the world's poor in return for connectivity.

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It's no joke...disability and comedy.

Stand up comedian Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice Guy, talks about the media's treatment of disability in this Guardian interview. Link.

Citizen Journalism: hacks or heroes?

Citizen journalism, defender of democracy or unreliable vanity project? The New Statesman analyses the murky truth of CJ submissions.

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Professional trolls or particapatory culture...?

Jenkins and Gauntlett would argue that social media is a force for good, a means of expressing your identity, but has social media become dominated by the emergence of a new identity - the 'professional troll'.

An interesting article in the Guardian on the ubiquitous Katie Hopkins. Link.

The death of old media...

Its official, TV is in terminal decline - if these recent Ofcom viewing statistics reported by the Guardian are to be believed.

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Perils of a cyber feminist

'No More Page 3' campaigner Lucy-Anne Holmes talks frankly about the abuses she's endured as a social media activist

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