Tag: Buzzfeed

Your Attention Please 9/10

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Your Attention Please 9/10Attention, Brodie Fenton, Buzzfeed, Craig Silverman, Paul Kennedy, post-truth, Sue Gardner

We love our phones. App developers create spaces online that we can’t resist.  They want us to “Stay, play and pay with our attention or personal data”. (Paul Kennedy, Ideas podcast) The adoption of the smart phone was one of the most massive and ubiquitous technological uptakes in our history.  When we go from laptop to […]

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Popular, or Important? 8/10

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Popular, or Important? 8/10Buzzfeed, Canadaland, cbc Ideas, Digital Literacies, Henry Giroux, Hossein Derakhshan, information literacy

People LIKE fake news better. It’s hard to argue with that.  And if you are going to click and share it, Facebook is feeding you even more of it, because as long as you are sharing and liking it, they are making money. With the invention of the cell phone, we have left behind the […]

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