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Confirmation Bias in Media: The Echo Chamber Challenge

Doctor Spin

Confirmation bias in the media skews the news. Fuelled by confirmation bias and media logic, echo chambers expose news audiences mainly to reinforcing opinions, narrowing and distorting their worldview. Learn more: Confirmation Bias in Media: The Echo Chamber Challenge Subscribe and get a free ebook on how to get better PR ideas.

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Echo Chambers: Algorithmic Confirmation Bias

Doctor Spin

Echo chambers in social media contribute to the viral spread of misinformation by acting as initial bandwagons for complex contagions.” “Echo chambers in social media contribute to the viral spread of misinformation by acting as initial bandwagons for complex contagions.” Source: PLoS ONE 1 Törnberg, P. PLoS ONE, 13.

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5 Scariest Halloween Campaigns of the Past Decade

Critical Mention

This video quickly went viral and has more than 40 million views on YouTube. The video went viral after its launch with over 600,000 views on YouTube. His agency focuses on blogging, sales and website pages and eBooks. IT remake featured a themed horror house. After the infamous horror film “IT” was remade in 2017, Warner Bros.

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10 lessons from 10 years of teaching social media

Karen Freberg

As we start the spring semester, I realized that it has officially been 10 years since I started teaching a social media class. Honestly, the time flew by and it seems like yesterday I came to UofL from my PhD at the University of Tennessee, where I was asked to create and execute a social media class. TEN YEARS?! Not consistently.

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The Top 50 Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Cision

As Cision’s social media manager, I use top 50 and top 100 lists for three purposes: To follow individuals who will help me stay in the loop when new trends and statistics emerge within my industry. Every year, Cision creates a list of the top 50 social media influencers on Twitter. For content generation and syndication.

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Cornerstones & Cobblestones: The Building Blocks of Your Multimedia Press Release

ISEBOX

These days, we need to be considering how we’re going to take our content and power it up to viral status. The theory goes that cornerstones are your foundational content pieces – a multimedia press release, whitepaper, ebook and the like. What a novel idea!” You won’t get coverage by simply including a video here and an image there.

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Mental Models: How To Think Better—Faster

Doctor Spin

7 I’ve written about this mental model in Critical Mass: How Many Social Media Followers Do You Need? 8 Let’s say the number of new social media shares per cycle is a constant multiplier, m. Continue reading 9 I’ve written about this mental model in How To Build a Viral Loop (Using Mathematics). Is this clear?

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