also digital culture reporting should involve REPORTING. dark days when the biggest british media outlets report on something based on a single tweet or Facebook status (even if it is from the police)
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extremely spicy take but i don't think it's just tabloids that are complicit in the momo scare. many established media outlets have a problem taking digital culture seriously, only bothering to cover things when they get out of hand/can find a more "traditional" angle
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I think a load of places have got the Momo thing wrong, but it definitely starts in tabloid pieces, and once these drum enough enough reaction for charities/police having to comment it moves up into more "serious media". Tabloids are the breeding ground.
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Oh absolutely! Tabloids are responsible for all of the scaremongering this week. It's just a shame that traditional outlets don't take this stuff seriously enough to bother debunking it early on. Thankfully the brilliant
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Friendly advice: your newsroom should have a digital culture reporter, not just a corner where you put young people to write about the internet in a whimsical way
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They are so bad at it. A lot of academia, long-time digital specialists excepted, also terrible at actually understanding the culture aspect rather than focusing on the tech or panic. They don’t live online, they don’t get where they’re meant to look.
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Right! And they also don't think of it as "real life"... I always find real people who've been affected by internet stuff IRL, and it's not hard at all, because this is life now!
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omg a million times this for the last five years
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Murky understanding of an area makes takes snap to established narratives like polygons to a grid. Main problem is not understanding tech stories as social ones, then snapping to the narrative without understanding the tech. It's like pets writing about fireworks
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