[Media past, present and future]
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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – JULY 25, 2023
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_ Media past, present and future _
, Tom Tomorrow
* AI Guidelines
* The Case For Social Media Socialism
* Next Intellectual Property Orgy: Movies About Toys
* OpenAI
* WGA and SAG-AFTRA Shake the Industry
* Digital Rights Coalition
* Stalkerware
* QAnon Myths in a Hit Movie
* Saving Local News
* Ida B. Wells: Media Liberator
AI GUIDELINES
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By Nolan Stout
Courthouse News
Seven leading technology companies have voluntarily agreed to follow
guidelines on the development of artificial intelligence established
by the White House. Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are the big
names announced Friday, joined by startups Anthropic and Inflection
and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
THE CASE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIALISM
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Hunter
Crooks and Liars
At this point it's clear that “social communication” is rapidly
making itself a necessity of modern existence, and that multicasting
is going to be an intrinsic part of _government_ information pushes
in the future, not just private ones. It’s now too important to
society and the all-important “economy” to let corporate America
turn into sludge; it’s time for regulating the holy hell out of
this.
NEXT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGY: MOVIES ABOUT TOYS
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By Alex Barasch
The New Yorker
Mattel had a children’s-entertainment catalogue “second only to
Disney.” Just as Marvel had gone from ailing comic-book publisher to
Hollywood behemoth, the toymaker could leverage its intellectual
property at the multiplex.
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By Mathew Ingram
Columbia Journalism Review
The bottom line is that cutting deals with OpenAI—or Google’s
Bard, or Meta’s LLaMa, for that matter—raises a host of potential
concerns that in many ways are similar to those raised by past deals
with Google and Meta. Any assistance provided to these companies could
ultimately help put journalists out of business.
WGA AND SAG-AFTRA SHAKE THE INDUSTRY
* THEY HAVE TO WIN
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By Hamilton Nolan, The Guardian
* SOCIAL MEDIA STARS AND THE STRIKES
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By Brian Contreras, Yahoo!
* STUDIOS PLAY HARD BALL
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By Sonali Kolhatkar, Socialist Project
DIGITAL RIGHTS COALITION
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By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams
A coalition of digital rights groups is sounding the alarm as U.S.
lawmakers try “to push through a swarm of harmful internet bills
that would severely impact human rights, expand surveillance, and
enable censorship” online by launching a week of action Thursday to
demand Congress pass comprehensive data privacy legislation instead.
STALKERWARE
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By Zack Whittaker
TechCrunch
A TechCrunch investigation based on hundreds of leaked documents can
now reveal how the spyware operation TheTruthSpy evaded detection,
for years — details which have not been previously reported.
QANON MYTHS IN A HIT MOVIE
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By Adam Gabbatt
The Guardian
_Sound of Freedom_, the religious, “QAnon adjacent”
child-smuggling film that has enthralled conservatives across the US,
passed the $100m mark in ticket sales on Thursday. But as the movie
continues to cause controversy, questions are also being asked about
who is actually watching it and whether that many people are watching
it at all.
SAVING LOCAL NEWS
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By Laura Hazard Owen, Mike Rispoli, Lisa Snowden, Nikki Usher
and Ken Ward Jr.
Democracy
Local newspapers and media have been decimated in recent years by
falling ad revenue and predatory companies gutting newsrooms for a
quick dollar. We wanted to focus on green shoots throughout the
country, so we assembled a collection of experts working in and
studying local news ecosystems.
IDA B. WELLS: MEDIA LIBERATOR
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By Abby Zimet
Common Dreams
At age 24, Wells became the co-owner and editor of two
papers, _Memphis Free Speech _and _Headlight_, the country’s
first woman and black person to do so. After an angry mob trashed her
printing press, she kept at it, arguing, “The people must know
before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the
press.”
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