The rise of social media and its impact on news media industries has been making headlines for a number of years. Social media is tipped to transform the newspaper industry. If searching for news was the most important development of the past decade, sharing news may be among the most important of the next, says […]
Author Archives: Perri Campbell
‘People got tired of cities after the war, and they are getting tired of the Web, too. Don’t get me wrong: I love the Web, but it’s a wild and dangerous place. It’s a teeming commercial city. It’s haphazardly planned. Its public spaces are mobbed’ (Virginia Heffernan, 2012). HOW do you find your way around […]
In 2008, John Maritotti, author of The Chinese Conspiracy and cyber-attack expert, claimed social media was an invitation to "at best, uncontrolled and permanent over-exposure and at worst, identity theft or misuse". We’ve come a long way since 2008. In fact, we’ve come a long way since the late 1990s when fears of identity […]