Digitale medier i uge 12 (2022)

Her har du den mest kom­plette opda­ter­ing på sociale medi­er og dig­i­tal udvikling i mediebranchen. Du bliv­er holdt opdateret og spar­er mass­er af tid.

Dig­i­tal Ugerevy udgives af Lars K Jensen, der råd­giv­er, udvikler og arbe­jder med dig­i­tale medi­er og udvikling.

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Del 1: Sociale medier 

Her find­er du his­to­ri­er om eller fra de store sociale plat­forme, der har en enorm rolle at spille i kon­tak­ten mellem udgiver/afsender og mod­tager.

💬 For journalister er Ukraine en "WhatsApp-krig"

Fra Colum­bia Jour­nal­ism Review:

"Ukraine has been called a Tik­Tok war because of the way images from the con­flict have been shared on social media. But for jour­nal­ists it’s all about What­sApp, Sig­nal, and Telegram. What’s changed, says Cameron Barr, Senior Man­ag­ing Edi­tor at The Wash­ing­ton Post, is both the 'scale and sever­i­ty' of the Ukraine con­flict. The Post relies on a What­sApp group with about two dozen reporters, edi­tors, and secu­ri­ty con­sul­tants to man­age the report­ing teams on the ground."

Why What­sApp Sur­vived Russia’s Social Media Purge
Wired

🪧 Australske medier i protest mod Zuckerberg

Fra Medi­aWatch:

"Ca. 30 min­dre nyhedsme­di­er i Aus­tralien har tirs­dag erstat­tet sine artik­ler med tek­sten "We're wait­ing on Zuck" med hen­vis­ning til Mark Zucker­berg, adm. direk­tør for Meta, som bl.a. dri­ver Face­book. "

Mere om medi­er og tech-gigan­ter:

Mediebranchen appellerer til øget poli­tisk pres på techgi­gan­ter under afs­lut­tende EU-forhan­dlinger
Medi­aWatch

⏱ Nu kan du få kronologisk feed på Instagram

Fra TechCrunch:

"Insta­gram today is mak­ing a chrono­log­i­cal feed avail­able to all users, as ear­li­er promised, along­side anoth­er new feed-fil­ter­ing option that will allow you to scroll through posts from your favorite accounts. The fea­tures had been launched into lim­it­ed test­ing start­ing in Jan­u­ary but will now reach Instagram’s glob­al user base by the end of the day on Wednes­day, March 23 — a faster roll­out than usu­al."

How chrono­log­i­cal feeds build trust
Plat­former

Mere Ins­ta:

Insta­gram Will Enable All Users to Tag Prod­ucts in Feed Posts
Social Media Today

🗓 Instagram tester "scheduled"-sticker

Fra Social Media Today:

"This could be inter­est­ing — Instagram’s cur­rent­ly test­ing a new ‘Sched­uled’ stick­er for Sto­ries, which pro­vides anoth­er way to pro­mote your upcom­ing events."

🤣 Facebook arbejder på "reactions" til Reels

Fra Social Media Today:

"Have you ever been watch­ing a Reel on Face­book and thought ‘man, I real­ly wish I could assign a Reac­tion here to show the cre­ator how I feel about it, in emo­ji form’?"

📺 YouTube går ind i streaming-kampen

Fra TechCrunch:

"The com­pa­ny said it will ini­tial­ly offer its U.S. users access to more than 4,000 free TV episodes from shows includ­ing “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Androm­e­da,” “Heart­land” and oth­ers. It plans to add to its free stream­ing col­lec­tion up to 100 more titles each week, includ­ing both shows and movies."

Del 2: Digitale tendenser

Her kan du læse nogle af ugens ten­denser inden­for medi­er. Det kan være en ny metode eller til­gang, branchen forsøger at tage til sig.

🇪🇺 Nu kommer EUs Digital Markets Act

Fra Pro­to­col:

"Euro­pean reg­u­la­tors on Thurs­day revealed their plan to rein in the anti-com­pet­i­tive prac­tices of Big Tech and fun­da­men­tal­ly remake how some of the world's most pow­er­ful com­pa­nies do busi­ness. The rules, which tar­get tech giants like Apple, Ama­zon, Meta and Google, are far-reach­ing and would have huge ram­i­fi­ca­tion for those com­pa­nies' soft­ware and ser­vices."

Jeg nævnte kort Dig­i­tal Mar­kets Act og Dig­i­tal Ser­vices Act, da jeg i marts sid­ste år skrev hos Kfo­rum om, at Face­book og Google skulle til at betale for at bringe uddrag fra medi­er.

+ Mere om DMA:

Europe reshapes Big Tech
Plat­former

Ny EU-aftale er et "afgørende første skridt" i opgør mod techgi­gan­ter
Medi­aWatch

The Dig­i­tal Mar­kets Act (DMA) is the bat­tle Big Tech fought hard and lost
FWIW by David Tvr­don

EU nego­tia­tors agree new rules to rein in tech giants
Politi­co

😬 DR viste krigsbilleder fra et computerspil

Fra Jour­nal­is­ten:

"DR-pro­gram­met ’Kri­gens Døgn’ bragte billed­er af rus­siske helikoptere, der blev skudt ned, men billed­erne var fra et com­put­er­spil. Det er præ­cis det, der ikke må ske, siger chefredak­tør"

TV 2 gjorde noget lig­nende for 9 år siden, da man brugte et billede fra et com­put­er­spil i den tro, at det var fra Syrien.

"Vores grafik­er går en tur på Google for at lede efter et billede af Damaskus, og der dukker et billede op, som hun sim­pelthen ikke kan se, ikke er ægte," lød fork­larin­gen den­gang.

Ja, alt er galt med den sæt­ning. TV 2s Syrien-bom­mert han­dler, også, om ophavs­ret, som jeg skrev den­gang.

📊 Google lukker Universal Analytics i 2023

I stedet skal man tage Ana­lyt­ics 4 i brug. Fra MarTech:

"Google will end Uni­ver­sal Ana­lyt­ics next year, the com­pa­ny announced Wednes­day. Uni­ver­sal Ana­lyt­ics prop­er­ties will stop pro­cess­ing new hits on July 1, 2023, and Uni­ver­sal Ana­lyt­ics 360 prop­er­ties will stop pro­cess­ing hits on Octo­ber 1, 2023."

Mere fra MarTech:

Google Ana­lyt­ics 4 or bust: Will you stay or go?

🎧 Unges podcast-forbrug vokser

Fra Medi­aWatch:

"Mens ande­len af danske unge mellem 15 og 24 år, der lyt­ter til pod­casts mindst ugentligt, er mere end for­doblet de sen­este fem år, har unges for­brug af talera­dio ligget stille, vis­er nye tal fra DR Medieforskn­ing."

👊 Algoritmer: Kulturministeren mødes med Meta og Google

Fra Medi­aWatch:

"Ane Hals­boe-Jør­gensen (V) vil tors­dag per­son­ligt afle­vere en anmod­ning til Face­book og Insta­grams mod­er­sel­skab, Meta, samt Youtube om at dele oplysninger om deres algo­rit­mer. Det sker som led i de igangværende medieforhan­dlinger."

🇺🇦 Flere medier åbner indhold for Rusland og Ukraine

Fra Digi­day:

"Although sim­i­lar to how many pub­lish­ers chose to lift their pay­walls to pro­vide cov­er­age of the pan­dem­ic for free, the han­dling of their Rus­sia-Ukraine report­ing marks a dif­fer­ent strat­e­gy, where pub­lish­ers — includ­ing Dow Jones, Finan­cial Times, The Econ­o­mist and The Wash­ing­ton Post — are giv­ing free access to spe­cif­ic coun­tries. And while it doesn’t seem to impact a large num­ber of read­ers (and there­fore exact a large toll on the busi­ness), it’s an exam­ple of news orga­ni­za­tions rec­og­niz­ing their mis­sion as a pub­lic ser­vice in times of cri­sis."

🗺 Hvad kortene over Ukraine fortæller – og skjuler

Fra The Con­ver­sa­tion:

"Geo­g­ra­phers often speak in terms of what they call the “silences” of maps — what’s miss­ing and unseen, hid­den in the mar­gins. Those silences are just as mean­ing­ful as what’s on the page. It’s impor­tant to ask what has been left out.

That’s cer­tain­ly true when look­ing at maps depict­ing aspects of Russia’s war on Ukraine. News orga­ni­za­tions around the world have pub­lished many maps of the cri­sis, but their stan­dard views are not the only way maps can help peo­ple under­stand what is hap­pen­ing in Ukraine."

😔 Rusland blokerer Google News

Fra MediaWatch/Ritzau:

"Rus­land har blok­eret Google News, da tjen­esten del­er nyhed­er om kri­gen i Ukraine, som Rus­land kalder 'usande'."

🤖 Bring arkivet i spil med kunstig intelligens

Fra Journalism.co.uk:

"From search­ing audio sound­bites to analysing quotes and sources, machine learn­ing has the poten­tial to bet­ter serve diverse audi­ences and cre­ate new beats"

📲 Trump lancerer app til aggregering af nyheder

Fra Axios:

"For­mer Trump staffers, includ­ing Don­ald Trump Jr., are launch­ing a news aggre­ga­tion app called "MxM News" that they hope will com­pete with the likes of Apple News and Google News."

🕹 Netflix på vej med tre nye spil

Fra The Verge:

"Net­flix has announced three more mobile games that you’ll soon be able to play on iOS or Android with a sub­scrip­tion to the stream­ing ser­vice, includ­ing the first FPS that’s avail­able as part of its line­up."

Del 3: Business

Her kan du læse nogle af ugens his­to­ri­er og ten­denser inden­for for­ret­ning­sud­vikling i mediebranchen. Alt­så det, der han­dler om at tjene penge.

😳 Zetland vokser videre

Fra Medi­aWatch:

"Det dig­i­tale medie lagde 7000 betal­ende medlem­mer til basen i 2021, og det var med til at udløse medi­ets bed­ste resul­tater hidtil. "Nu er vi et sted, hvor vi kan tillade os at drømme på en helt anden måde og tage nogle flere chancer," siger direk­tør Tav Klit­gaard."

📲 Google åbner kattelem for betalinger via Play Store

Dét er inter­es­sant. Fra Pro­to­col:

"Google announced Wednes­day that it will part­ner with Spo­ti­fy to test out third-par­ty billing options for app devel­op­ers.

The move is a response to the inter­na­tion­al pres­sure over fees that Android and Apple col­lect on trans­ac­tions in apps on their mobile plat­forms — pres­sure that Spo­ti­fy itself has helped to amp up."

Hvad med Apple? Mere fra Pro­to­col:

Is this the end of the app store tax?

📉 BuzzFeed skærer i News-afdelingen

Fra Nie­man Lab:

"Buz­zFeed News, with 100 employ­ees, was los­ing about $10 mil­lion a year, two 'peo­ple famil­iar with the mat­ter' told CNBC. Those peo­ple also not­ed that 'sev­er­al large share­hold­ers have urged Buz­zFeed CEO Jon­ah Peretti to shut down the entire news oper­a­tion.' [...]

Schoofs hint­ed at what a small­er Buz­zFeed News will — and won’t — focus on. The 'won’t' appears to be long­form inves­tiga­tive report­ing, the kind for which Buz­zFeed News won a Pulitzer last year."

Buz­zFeed and the demands of being pub­lic
Colum­bia Jour­nal­ism Review

🤷‍♂️ Uafhængige podcasts ligner hinanden

Fra Medi­aWatch:

"I en higen efter at få suc­ces som pod­cast­er og mulighed for at finan­siere sit arbe­jde sker der en kom­mer­cialis­er­ing og main­stream­i­fis­er­ing af de uafhængige pod­casts. Det vur­der­er forsker ved Syd­dan­sk Uni­ver­sitet, som har optalt 552 uafhængige pod­casts i Dan­mark."

Mere om pod­casts og for­ret­ning:

Podcasting's Most Con­tro­ver­sial Sta­tis­tic
Tom Web­ster

Del 4: Udvikling og tech

Her får du et kig på nogle af ugens his­to­ri­er inden­for den dig­i­tale udvikling og teknolo­gi, der enten direk­te eller indi­rek­te kan have betyd­ning for medier/udgivere.

🇪🇺 GDPR: Tech-giganternes EU-planer er måske ikke nok

Fra Version2:

"»De skal ind og skrive under på, at de altid føl­ger europæisk lov­givn­ing uanset, hvad de måtte blive mødt med af amerikanske krav. Reelt set skal de sige, at hvis de står i en sit­u­a­tion, hvor de bliv­er tvunget til at vælge mellem europæisk og amerikan­sk lov­givn­ing, så væl­ger de europæisk lov,« under­streger [Allan Frank, it-sikker­hedsspe­cial­ist og jurist hos Datatil­synet]. [...]

Men her kom­mer amerikan­sk lov­givn­ing igen på banen og spæn­der ben for pla­nen."

🦹‍♂️ Hackere påstår af have kildekoden til bl.a. Bing og Cortana

Fra Bleep­ing Com­put­er:

"Ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing, the Lap­sus$ gang post­ed a screen­shot to their Telegram chan­nel indi­cat­ing that they hacked Microsoft's Azure DevOps serv­er con­tain­ing source code for Bing, Cor­tana, and var­i­ous oth­er inter­nal projects."

🦈 Var det noget med en Baby Shark-NFT?

Fra Bloomberg:

"It’s that allure that Pink­fong is hop­ing to cap­i­tal­ize on even more. The com­pa­ny is now devel­op­ing a movie of its famous shark with Nick­elodeon Ani­ma­tion and is explor­ing ways to use non-fun­gi­ble tokens after its first NFT col­lec­tion of “Baby Shark” was sold out in 30 min­utes in Decem­ber. It’s also plan­ning to start dig­i­tal comics and launch prod­ucts for the old­er fans who grew up obsess­ing over the tune."