During the years of social media ascendancy I would sometimes write about a cynical description industry insiders had for popular social media games like Candy Crush, FarmVille and the ilk. They called them “time management devices,” because their goal
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Earlier this year, I was asked to work on a legal case involving a couple of finance sector companies where one was accused by the other of trademark infringement where the defendant’s website abruptly began ranking for the plaintiff’s service mark. The
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For a long time, the world of 3D engines — especially for game developers — was all about Unity and Epic’s Unreal Engine. Then, when Amazon started its ill-fated attempt to get into gaming, it launched the Lumberyard engine (which itself was based on
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Algorithmic Personalization, Identity, and Everyday Life Tanya Kant Goes beyond the headline effects of the "filter bubble" theory to examine not only how personalization intersects with users' worldview, but how it intervenes in, and shapes, users' own sense
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In a contract bargaining meeting on Wednesday, October 12, Gannett, which had just made what senior reporter Diane Smithcharacterized on Twitteras an “insulting, lowball financial proposal” to the Record-Courier NewsGuild inKent, Ohio,ominouslysuggested
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In November, Instagram will begin to let some influencers build media kits within the app through a new feature called "creator portfolios." Creator portfolios are part of the Meta-owned platform's broader creator marketplace offerings, which are currently
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Tools That Fight Disinformation Online Search for tools that fight disinformation by name, type, or by keyword: Search by Keyword Adblock Plus Adblock Plus is a browser extension and app that blocks advertisements and websites through the use of filtering
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Greetings from a very loud hotel lobby in Madrid. I had the opportunity to speak at a pair of events in Europe this week – and might squeeze in some tapas before heading back home, if anyone has any recommendations. I decided to write a bit on the topic of
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