If you wanted to see clearly into how all the various components of the modern media ecosystem interact, you could not come up with a better real-time experiment than the Donald Sterling story.
By using social media bots, celebrities, politicians and others can falsely inflate the number of friends and followers they have, possibly swaying public opinion about a new song — or a policy position.
Getting a ticket to see the show would have required the kind of social-media shillling that I don’t think anyone’s friends or followers should be subjected to.
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Paper Magazine’s editorial director has never been shy about being seen. Now he’s increasingly using Twitter and Instagram to be heard.
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Carnival Cruise Lines has created a new campaign it hopes will put behind it the incident that stranded passengers last February.
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A day after Yahoo’s board approved a deal to acquire Tumblr, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief, and David Karp, Tumblr’s founder, reassured users that Tumblr would operate as it did before.
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