[nonostantement #91] - a game of society / trump vs obama / coachela as an empire
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[From me] [In Italian] - 🇮🇹 Adidas, l'errore, e puntare tutto sul digitale.
"Circa due anni fa, in una campagna di Google AdWords, per uno sbaglio non sono state acquistate parole chiave durante un breve periodo di tempo. La stessa cosa è accaduta nuovamente qualche mese più tardi. In entrambi i casi non sono stati rilevati cambi importanti nel numero di visite e/o di conversioni."Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore
"To make the most efficient use of their scant time at home, some parents have resorted to using the same enterprise software that organizes their office lives: Trello for chores, to-do lists, and homework; Slack to communicate with the kids or even to summon them to dinner."What Does It Mean to Be a ‘VSCO Girl’?
"The VSCO girl is both a person and a meme, blandly aspirational to many, but also the subject of pointed parody. It has a hyperspecific set of associations and aesthetics."Real numbers from a real Instagram influencer (with 100K+ followers)
"Having 100K Instagram followers isn't as great as it seems. Here's the real offers that I and other influencers get. (You'll probably laugh)"A Facebook content moderation vendor is quitting the business after two Verge investigations
"Moderators at the site described being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome after being subjected to a daily onslaught of graphic and disturbing images. Others said they had come to embrace fringe viewpoints after seeing videos about conspiracy theories on a regular basis. Multiple employees reporting fearing for their safety after being threatened by coworkers."'A game of society': Why a group of Italian journalists turned Instagram into a board game
"Using Instagram posts and Stories Highlights, 'Un gioco di società ' reveals to social media users the urban development of Naples, Rome and Milan" - Another article (in Italian) about the same project: Così gli speculatori cambiano i volti delle città : l'inchiesta si segue su Instagram: "'Un gioco di società ' è un lavoro di approfondimento interamente pensato e pubblicato sul social network. Racconta gli affari di società immobiliari, fondi di investimento e piattaforme digitali a Napoli, Roma e Milano."The Company That Branded Your Millennial Life Is Pivoting To Burnout
"When the marketing team behind brands like Sweetgreen and Everlane found themselves burning out, they shifted their business focus to doing something about it. But if capitalism caused this problem, can capitalism fix it?"Instagram Has Changed Professional Food Photography Forever
"They are almost exclusively shooting from the top. Almost everything is a round dish of food and in a square, because Instagram is square, and a lot of it is on white or very light backgrounds, and white or very light plating, and consistently less and less propping."Exclusive: Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard talks about the sustainability myth, the problem with Amazon—and why it’s not too late to save the planet
"Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard set the standard for how a business can mitigate the ravages of capitalism on earth’s environment. At 81 years old, he’s just getting started."[In Italian] - Quattro (possibili) ragioni della tristezza della politica digitale
"La violenza gentile è una tecnica di rottamazione, o asfaltatura o piallaggio dell’avversario politico che non prevede l’onore delle armi. Perché dentro il network, che ha limato sfumature e punti di vista difformi, l’unico avversario buono è l’avversario morto."[Video] - MASH-UP: Trump’s al-Baghdadi Speech & Obama’s Bin Laden Speech - YouTube
"When Barack Obama went on TV to announce they killed Bin Laden, he spoke for nine and a half minutes. Trump yesterday, when he announced they killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, did for 48 minutes. So, for further comparison, we thought it might be fun to mash-up Trump’s speech about al-Baghdadi with Obama’s on Bin Laden."US opens national security investigation into TikTok
"While the $1 billion acquisition was completed two years ago, U.S. lawmakers have been calling in recent weeks for a national security probe into TikTok, concerned the Chinese company may be censoring politically sensitive content, and raising questions about how it stores personal data."How Coachella ’99 Lost a Million Dollars and Started an Empire
"Before it was the megalithic event that towered over the music landscape, the Indio, California, festival was a money-losing weekend in the desert. Twenty years after Coachella’s October 1999 debut, artists and key players from the inaugural edition look back on the killer lineup, how the festival industry has changed, and all that dust."[Video] - This Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN - YouTube
"I tried to write a more honest VPN commercial. The sponsor wasn't happy about it."Why Donald Trump — and Other Powerful Men — Love to Cast Themselves As Victims
"The willingness to abuse power and then protect one’s power by casting oneself as abused, via a fantasy of victimhood, surely has a lengthy history, but has become a particular hallmark of the post-Obama political era."[Video] - China is producing billionaires faster than any other nation
"Communist China's planned economy once prevented its citizens from becoming wealthy. But China now produces billionaires faster than any country in the world, even as President Xi Jinping has cracked down on ostentatious displays of wealth."[In Italian] - Anche la scienza ha bisogno dell'anonimato online
"Costringere i social network a chiedere i documenti potrebbe mettere a rischio l'integrità della ricerca scientifica e del confronto su internet"
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