YouTube sensationalism

BW
Barry Wellman
Thu, Apr 18, 2019 5:32 PM

Our CITAMS colleague, Zeynep Tufekci gets a nice write-up in the current
New Yorker (April 22, 2019, p. 31) about how even YouTube is pushing to
hold attention by pushing viewers to more sensational material.

Barry Wellman

Step by step, link by link, putting it together--Streisand/Sondheim
The earth to be spannd, connected by network--Walt Whitman
It's Always Something--Roseanne Roseannadanna

          A day like all days, filled with those events
      that alter and illuminate our times--Walter Cronkite

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Distinguished Visiting Scholar  Social Media Lab  Ryerson University
Founder, International Network for Social Network Analysis
NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System  Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Wellman


Our CITAMS colleague, Zeynep Tufekci gets a nice write-up in the current New Yorker (April 22, 2019, p. 31) about how even YouTube is pushing to hold attention by pushing viewers to more sensational material. Barry Wellman Step by step, link by link, putting it together--Streisand/Sondheim The earth to be spannd, connected by network--Walt Whitman It's Always Something--Roseanne Roseannadanna A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times--Walter Cronkite _______________________________________________________________________ Director, NetLab Network FRSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar Social Media Lab Ryerson University Founder, International Network for Social Network Analysis NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Wellman _______________________________________________________________________