Thursday, February 16, 2017
Links relative to paradigm shifts
As I come across stories that detail seismic shifts in one area of business, media, or personal life, I'll post them here. We can refer to them in class, or use them as the basis for future class discussions. Feel free, as you come across such stories, to post your links here, too.
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The New York Times was the first major newspaper to publish online (starting in January of 1996). It's also leading the way as the former print news media figure out how to operate online,
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ReplyDeleteEmbedded in this article about the news phenom that is Trump is this section, which is even more relevant to the paradigm shift that social media provides: "The researchers demonstrated this with an online market for music downloads. Half of the people who arrived at Mr. Watts’s music-downloading site were shown just the titles and band name of each song. The other half were also shown a social signal — how many times each song had been downloaded by other users.
ReplyDeleteMr. Watts and his colleagues found that adding social signals changed the music people were interested in. Inequality went up: When people could see what others were downloading, popular songs became far more popular, and unpopular songs far less popular. Social signals also created a greater unpredictability of outcomes; when people could see how others had picked songs, the collective ratings of each song were less likely to predict success, and bad songs were more likely to become popular."
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ReplyDeleteDoes a successful career depend on social media?
ReplyDeleteNo, it doesn't. Get off Social Media.
Use Social Media to help your career along.