Photographers in print vs instagram
I'd like to look at photo selection on what's printed versus what the photojournalist posts to their personal account. I follow a few music and sports photographers on instagram and got to thinking about it recently. Do they post the same photos that were published or do they try and offer a different look for their personal social audience? Some of it might be motivated by contractual obligations to the organization they shoot for but there also might be other factors at play like knowing what type of photo will get the most likes.
Comments Section
I'm interested in the gutter that can be the comments section, on a news story or even on a Facebook post on an official news Page. Mainly in whatever the gratification one gets from making a post versus the actual impact of the comment. Or possibly comparing comments on a story versus on the story as it was posted to Facebook. This might be interesting for the sites that killed story comments but still have an active Facebook presence. Did their Facebook comments increase? Decrease? Does it even matter?
The most comments we ever had in a single month was July of 2014, when we had some 68,000 comments. That sounds like a lot. But we also had 12 million unique visitors that month. When you start to look at it that way, even if every comment was created by an individual commenter — which is not the way it works; surely several of those commenters commented hundreds of times — 68,000 commenters would still be dramatically less than one percent of our total readership. http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/what-happened-after-7-news-sites-got-rid-of-reader-comments/
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Snapchat Discover
Snapchat has rolled out a channel service that lets media publish daily stories for all to watch. Comedy Central recently started a Snapchat-exclusive "show" even. I'm curious what the adoption and viewership rate is. Are Snapchat users watching this content? Some of it is able to be interacted with and re-posted but it still seems like a limited audience. Is this just advertisers going to where the users are or is the Snapchat Discover platform a viable addition to how we create/consume media? Further, the "live" stories allow users to contribute content to themed stories such as an event, city or university. Some of the live stories now include inserted ads but they can be skipped just as easily as the snaps themselves. A recent story included information showing how quickly users were passing over the ads, which makes me question the effectiveness:
After recently becoming enthralled with the Emoji Tracker, i became curious about the adoption of them. Photos, videos, hashtags and emoji are four major ways to add more than basic text to a tweet. In my basic and limited searching, it appears that news organizations on twitter are using the first three but haven't really adopted emoji yet. Why? I can think of a few reasons. I'd like to dive into that a little further perhaps.
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