I have been using Feedly for a long time to keep up with various RSS feeds. I tell myself I started using it around the time Google closed Google Reader, but can it really be 9 years? I guess so. In any case, I am done with Feedly. Feedly is getting worse. I started using […]
Category: media
DRs hype-indeks
DR Medieforsknings årlige rapport om udviklingen i danskernes brug af elektroniske medier, Medieudviklingen 2021, er på gaden nu. I rapporten er et repræsentativt udsnit af danskerne i en spørgeskemaundersøgelse blevet spurgt om deres brug af en række udvalgte mediefænomener. De har her givet deres svar på en skala fra 1 til 5, hvor 1 er […]
Book Review: Stop Reading the News
I do not read a lot of news in a traditional sense. I do not open up the daily newspaper. I rely on my curated Twitter feed and several blogs to keep myself posted on what goes on, up and down in the world. For that reason, I might not be the target audience for […]
Skaber sociale medier ekkokamre? #5
I 2017, 2018, 2019 og 2020 skrev jeg om, hvorvidt og i hvilket omfang sociale medier skaber ekkokamre. Nu hvor 2021 så småt er ved at gå på hæld, tænkte jeg, at det ville være relevant at belyse et par af de nye studier, der direkte eller indirekte kigger på, hvorvidt sociale medier skaber ekkokamre. […]
New book: Reporting Public Opinion
I am happy to announce the publication of a new book, ‘Reporting Public Opinion: How the Media Turns Boring Polls into Biased News‘, co-authored with Zoltán Fazekas. The book is about how and why opinion polls are more likely to be about change in the news reporting. Specifically, journalists are more likely to pick opinion […]
Which party do you think is most likely to agree?
In a new poll, JL Partners surveyed more than 2,000 respondents to understand how the public perceives the Labour Party and the Conservative Party on a series of different “woke” topics. The Daily Mail uses the poll to conclude that “Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is out of touch with public opinion”. Is that what […]
Hyperintelligente superalgoritmer
Politiken kan fortælle, at “en digital superalgoritme med hidtil uset præcision” kan kortlægge hadefulde kommentarer på Facebook. Jeg har ingen idé om, hvad en superalgoritme er, men det skal man nok være enten astrofysiker eller journalistpraktikant for at vide. I en anden artikel kalder Politiken det for en “hyperintelligent algoritme”. Jeg ved heller ikke, hvad […]
A problem with survey data when studying social media
We cannot understand modern politics without studying social media. Politicians as well as ordinary citizens rely on social media to discuss and consume political content. One of the data sources researchers rely on to study behaviour on social media is survey data. However, there can be specific challenges with studying social media. Here, I will […]
Er nutidens studerende for dårlige? #2
For snart ti år siden skrev jeg et indlæg, hvor jeg kritiserede en rundspørge foretaget af Politiken. Denne rundspørge konkluderede, at nutidens studerende var blevet dårligere i løbet af 5-10 år. Der var en lang række metodiske problemer med denne type rundspørge, som jeg kom ind på allerede for ti år siden. Hvad jeg i […]
Paying for good journalism
There is no such thing as a free lunch. And there is no such thing as free journalism. And there is definitely no such thing as free good journalism. Yet I consume a lot of free good journalism. Good journalism is a public good. However, to get access to good journalism, as for most things […]