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Information Asymmetry: The Informed Minority Advantage

Doctor Spin

Information Asymmetry in Popular Culture Several TV shows and films have been inspired by the concept of information asymmetry, similar to the dynamics found in games like Mafia, Werewolf, or Among Us. This web series is directly inspired by the popular game “Among Us.” Dead of Winter (Short Film, 2014). The Thing (1982).

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Post-Oscars coverage focuses on wins for diversity

NewsWhip

There was a lot of attention on “Hair Love” for its win for best animated short film. Parasite’s historic best picture win was also heavily circulated on the web, with many people who had called for more diverse nominations reveling in the fact that a foreign language film did actually win for the first time. Katherine Ellis.

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Who were the top publishers on Facebook in September 2019?

NewsWhip

This analysis includes English-language content from publishers, ranked by Facebook likes, shares, and comments to their web content, ranked by domain. Additionally, these rankings do not include media natively uploaded to a Facebook Page, such as a Facebook video. The top websites in September 2019. million engagements.

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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

Thanks to the social media revolution, we are in the afterlife. Another factor driving another nail in the press release’s coffin is that whatever is left of traditional journalism has begun using social media as their primary source for news stories. You may have noticed that with the advent of Web 1.0

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Privacy isn’t necessarily a good thing

Stephen Waddington

CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a keynote speech that it’s an area where the social media firm has a lousy reputation. If users don’t trust the social media platform to manage their data, growth and engagement will stall and ad revenue will follow. The web is a social space. He went as far as trying to make a joke of the issue.

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Newspapers Getting Their Game On

Flatiron Communications

Each had their proverbial 15 minutes of fame, though at the Web Summit this week in Dublin I did hear about an app that allowed one to mobile-scan any branded image (from any medium) for transport to the brand’s digital content. Lost in Oculus at Web Summit. No reader required. So who were the big winners in Dublin?

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The Power of Storytelling: Plotting The Future of Media

Flatiron Communications

She hadn’t previously worked in the business, and needed some basic pointers on how to generate media coverage for this first-of-a-kind “museum,” which was founded by CBS Television patriarch William S. One day my friend invited me to attend a private screening of her “brother’s new film.”