Journalism and media

A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles – almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she’s now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world’s biggest publishers. http://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-uploaded-millions-of-journal-articles-in-an-attempt-to-open-up-science?utm_content=bufferda29f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Posted from WordPress for Android →

After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/the-research-pirates-of-the-dark-web/461829/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

According to the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, emeritus professor at Princeton University, bullshit is something that is constructed absent of any concern for the truth. This is quite different from lying, which implies a deep concern for the truth (namely, its subversion). Bullshit is particularly pernicious since the bullshitter adopts an epistemic stance that allows for →

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/419391/george-saunders-on-story/?utm_source=SFFB Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say-block-that-malware/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-domain/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/facebook-echo-chambers-help-spread-and-reinforce-misinformation Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5-media-innovations-2015_5682b601e4b06fa688812cb0 Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://www.autostraddle.com/this-is-how-fox-news-brainwashes-its-viewers-our-in-depth-investigation-of-the-propaganda-cycle-297107/ Interesting analysis… This would apply to pretty many other news media companies as well. Posted from WordPress for Android →

25 years ago: Sir Tim Berners-Lee builds world’s first website article tells that there are just under a billion web domains registered in the world today, and over four billion webpages, by some estimates. We’ve come a long way: it all started to come together just 25 years ago (December 20, 1990) in a small →