Tag • #youtube

chevron_right

On my radar: Yael van der Wouden’s cultural highlights

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 14:00

The Dutch-Israeli author on a demonic club hit, her fish fixation, and her love of furniture restoration videos

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1987, Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher who lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her work has appeared in publications including LitHub, Electric Literature and Elle.com, and she has a David Attenborough-themed advice column, Dear David, in the online literary journal Longleaf Review. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, On (Not) Reading Anne Frank, received a notable mention in the 2018 Best American Essays collection. The Safekeep , published by Viking earlier this year, is Van der Wouden’s debut novel and is shortlisted for the Booker prize.

chevron_right

The Guardian view on the other influencers: a golden era for science education | Editorial

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 29 September - 17:25 · 1 minute

YouTube isn’t always a stupefaction engine. Curious children and other autodidacts have unrivalled access to knowledge

With highbrow content but defiantly low production values, the Numberphile YouTube channel might be considered the antithesis of the platform’s biggest successes. While stars such as the controversial MrBeast orchestrate elaborate stunts and giveaways, Numberphile videos feature mathematicians talking through complex concepts at length. There are occasional questions or prompts from the unseen cameraman. The props are usually a sheet of brown paper and a marker pen. The closest the episodes get to clickbait are titles such as Tau vs Pi Smackdown or The Lazy Way to Cut Pizza; a typical video is More on Bertrand’s Paradox, or An Amazing Thing About 276.

None of this sounds like catnip for young viewers. Yet since it launched in 2011, the series has become a cult hit. Eleven million people have now watched the physics professor Roger Bowley discuss Kaprekar’s Constant . The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the London Mathematical Society have just awarded Numberphile’s creator, Brady Haran, the Zeeman medal for the communication of mathematics. As the citation notes, the channel has material for everyone from primary school kids to graduate students. It’s a fair bet that Numberphile – along with similar channels such as Stand-up Maths and 3Blue1Brown – has inspired at least some of the record 100,000-plus children who took maths A-level in England this year.

chevron_right

Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC finds

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 19 September - 20:17

Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties

Social media and online video companies are collecting huge troves of your personal information on and off their websites or apps and sharing it with a wide range of third-party entities, a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report on nine tech companies confirms.

The FTC report published on Thursday looked at the data-gathering practices of Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Discord, Reddit, Amazon, Snap, TikTok and Twitter/X between January 2019 and 31 December 2020. The majority of the companies’ business models incentivized tracking how people engaged with their platforms, collecting their personal data and using it to determine what content and ads users see on their feeds, the report states.

chevron_right

MrBeast sued over ‘unsafe’ environment on upcoming Amazon reality show

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 18 September - 18:51

Popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson accused of harmful conditions behind scenes of competition show Beast Games

MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning the $5m grand prize on his new Amazon reality show, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants.

The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube ’s most popular channel failed to provide minimum wages, overtime pay, uninterrupted meal breaks and rest time for competitors – whose “work on the show was the entertainment product” sold by MrBeast.

chevron_right

Corruption de mineur : le youtubeur ExperimentBoy bientôt fixé sur son sort, après une longue procédure

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 18 September - 13:58

Le verdict du procès de Baptiste Mortier-Dumont, alias ExperimentBoy, ex-star de YouTube spécialisée dans la vulgarisation scientifique à travers des vidéos déjantées, sera rendu mi-octobre. Il est poursuivi depuis quatre ans pour des faits de corruption de mineur dont Numerama avait révélé l'ampleur dans une enquête.

chevron_right

Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 8 August - 13:21

Enlarge (credit: Maskot via Getty )

Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company’s own rules for how minors are treated online.

According to documents seen by the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter, Google worked on a marketing project for Meta that was designed to target 13- to 17-year-old YouTube users with adverts that promoted its rival’s photo and video app.

The Instagram campaign deliberately targeted a group of users labeled as “unknown” in its advertising system, which Google knew skewed toward under-18s, these people said. Meanwhile, documents seen by the FT suggest steps were taken to ensure the true intent of the campaign was disguised.

Read 33 remaining paragraphs | Comments

chevron_right

Ce que YouTube imagine encore pour mener la vie dure aux adblockers

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 14 June, 2024 - 05:14

iron man

Google est suspecté de mettre en place une nouvelle solution technique pour contrer les bloqueurs de publicités. Il s'agirait en somme de fusionner les vidéos d'annonce directement dans le flux vidéo, pour qu'on ne puisse plus les distinguer.

chevron_right

Venezuela arrests YouTuber for ‘terrorism’ amid pre-election crackdown

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April, 2024 - 16:55

Detention of influencer Oscar Alejandro Pérez at Caracas airport en route to southern national park raises free speech concerns

A popular Venezuelan YouTuber has been arrested in Caracas on terrorism charges as President Nicolás Maduro’s government steps up its crackdown on free speech ahead of upcoming elections.

Oscar Alejandro Pérez was detained in the capital’s main airport on Sunday by police on accusations of terrorism, his family said.

chevron_right

Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 27 March, 2024 - 20:25

Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto )

Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called "Ghostbusters," designed to sneakily access encrypted Snapchat usage data to give Facebook a leg up on its rival, just when Snapchat was experiencing rapid growth in 2016.

The documents were filed in a class-action lawsuit from consumers and advertisers, accusing Meta of anticompetitive behavior that blocks rivals from competing in the social media ads market.

"Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted, we have no analytics about them," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who has since rebranded his company as Meta) wrote in a 2016 email to Javier Olivan.

Read 18 remaining paragraphs | Comments