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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES - NOVEMBER 16, 2021  
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November 16, 2021
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_ Income disparity on the small screen, Zuckerberg's big rip-off, and
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Credit, Netflix, Siren Pictures Inc., YouTube

 

* Mark’s Meta Megascheme
* The Infrastructure Bill and the Digital Divide
* Coverage of Protests in Cuba, Colombia On Different Planets
* How NFTs Create Value
* China’s Social Media Explosion
* TikTok: Permission to Live Our Lives
* School Surveillance Via Laptops
* Big Media, Stop Feeding the Far Right!
* Critics Discuss Hit TV Shows About Class
* Watching the Media Ignore Eco-Activism at COP26

MARK’S META MEGASCHEME

TARGET: CHILDREN
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 By Prabir Purkayastha, MENAFN

A GROWING MONOPOLY
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 By Peter Kafka, Vox

ZUCKER NEEDS SUCKERS
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 By James Muldoon, Jacobin

THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
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By Marc S. Martin and Tyler Robbins
Perkins Come

The bill includes $65 billion for broadband infrastructure and
government programs aimed at expanding access to more reliable,
affordable, and faster internet services. This will be accomplished
through infrastructure grants, service plan subsidies for the
disadvantaged, and new labeling requirements on service providers.

COVERAGE OF PROTESTS IN CUBA, COLOMBIA ON DIFFERENT PLANETS
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By Mikael Wolfe and Jessica Femenias
NACLA Report

This study examined the coverage of the protests in Colombia and Cuba
in the two newspapers during a period of six to eight weeks from the
day that the protests broke out in each country. Coverage by_ The
Post_ and _The Times _largely conformed to Biden’s foreign policy
agenda.

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By Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
Harvard Business Review

By creating a system of verifiable digital ownership, non-fungible
tokens fundamentally changed the market for digital assets, creating
the possibility for new types of transactions. Amidst a flood of new
ventures, however, it can be hard to tell which are creating value and
which are just riding the hype.

CHINA’S SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLOSION
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By Christina Lu
Foreign Policy

Now that all the major U.S. platforms have left the country, what does
the world’s largest social media market look like?

TIKTOK: PERMISSION TO LIVE OUR LIVES
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By Madison Malone Kircher
Slate

The idea that we need permission to celebrate ourselves, to indulge in
self-care, has become something of a running theme among several of
TikTok’s most popular trends this fall. 

SCHOOL SURVEILLANCE VIA LAPTOPS
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By Nir Kshetri
The Conversation

Reported provision of laptops by schools to their students doubled
from 43% before the pandemic to 86% during the pandemic. But schools
also installed artificial intelligence-based surveillance software on
these devices to monitor students’ online activities and what is
stored in the computer.

BIG MEDIA, STOP FEEDING THE FAR RIGHT!
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By Jake Johnson
Salon

AT&T—the world’s largest telecom company—played a major role in
creating and funding One America News Network, the Trumpite cable
outlet that stands to the right of Fox News.

CRITICS DISCUSS HIT TV SHOWS ABOUT CLASS
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By Daniel Fienberg and Angie Han
The Hollywood Reporter

The extremes of income disparity shape many of the small screen’s
fall offerings — but, THR’s television critics say, not all
explorations of class are created equal.

Watching the Media Ignore Eco-Activism at COP26
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By Jon Allsop
Columbia Journalism Review

Climate-justice movements (like many other social-justice movements)
have historically been marginalized and/or infantilized by swathes of
the mainstream media.

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