article thumbnail

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).

article thumbnail

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.

Film 78
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. CNN was again in the top spot in our engagement rankings to its web content for the month of September, albeit with a fairly significant dip in engagement numbers compared to August.

Facebook 106
article thumbnail

The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

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 You know how, where, and when to post it.

article thumbnail

Privacy isn’t necessarily a good thing

Stephen Waddington

The web is a social space. We’re on the web so that we can talk with other people about things that matter to us and do so in our own voice.” It followed sexual abuse allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein. Both Black Live Matters and Me Too emerged from public conversations on the internet.

Privacy 72
article thumbnail

Remakes & Remixes: Replicating Successful Digital PR Campaigns

Buzzstream

This piece is a remix: Unicorn League is a piece we created for Sage, which sadly is no longer live on the web (like much of my work). Let’s take a look at another piece: This is Director’s Cut , a piece where we revealed the films with the highest on-screen death counts: Should we remake this? Now let’s take a look at remixes.

article thumbnail

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?