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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES - MAY 19, 2020  
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May 19, 2020
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_ Gaming and the class struggle, media myths busted, and more _

Lina Attalah has been arrested in a growing crackdown on freedom of
expression linked to Covid-19, Photograph: Roger Anis/AP

 

* False Balance
* Independent Editor Arrested in Egypt
* Labor Organizing Via Social Media
* Instacart Didn’t Save the Day
* The World of Gaming
* Post-Coronavirus Surveillance
* The Crisis Hits the Silicon Valley Myth
* Is "Resistance Journalism" a Thing?

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By Maria Bustillos
April 29, 2020
Columbia Journalism Review

What broadcast media is really selling—literally selling, to its
advertisers and to its viewers—is the illusion of stability and
certainty in American life, as well as its own role as a wise,
trustworthy leader within that system.

INDEPENDENT EDITOR ARRESTED IN EGYPT
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By Kaamil Ahmed
May 17, 2020 
Middle East Eye

Lina Attalah's arrest marks the latest setback for Egypt's 'last
bastion of free press'.

LABOR ORGANIZING VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
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By Hamilton Nolan
May 7, 2020
In These Times

Coworker.org allows workers to start and run campaigns in their
workplace. Unit.work, formed as a benefit corporation to support
worker rights, allows workers to make an account, sign union cards,
and form an independent union at their workplace.

INSTACART DIDN’T SAVE THE DAY
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By Ellen Huet and Lizette Chapman
May 6, 2020
Bloomberg

The grocery delivery app added 300,000 workers in eight weeks, but
Covid-19 is still overtaking it in more ways than one.

The World of Gaming

THE RADICAL POTENTIAL OF VIDEO GAMES
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McGuirk, April 26, 2020, Red Pepper

HOW CAPITALISM SHAPES GAMING
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By Paolo Ruffino, April 29, 2020, Red Pepper

RESPONDING TO GAMERGATE
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Zukowska and Carolyn Petit, April 27, 2020, Red Pepper

POST-CORONAVIRUS SURVEILLANCE
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By Susan Benesch and Emma Llansó
April 24, 2020
OpenDemocracy

The pandemic has demonstrated the risks of relying on algorithms to
remove harmful content.   

THE CRISIS HITS THE SILICON VALLEY MYTH
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By David Rotman
April 25, 2020
MIT Technology Review

The pandemic shows that the US is no longer much good at coming up
with technologies relevant to our most basic needs.

IS "RESISTANCE JOURNALISM" A THING?
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By Jon Allsop
May 19, 2020
Columbia Journalism Review

Ronan Farrow's reporting has come under fire for “telling us what
we wanted to believe about the way power works.”

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