December 2, 2023

Engadget: Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers

Engadget: Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers. “For many users, the battle between YouTube and ad blockers has largely been invisible, or at least ignorable, until now. The new wall dramatically changes this dynamic, forcing users to adapt their behavior if they want to access YouTube videos at all. Still, the ad blocking companies suggest it’s more of a policy change than a technical breakthrough — a sign of a new willingness on YouTube’s part to risk alienating its users.”

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November 28, 2023

University of Southern California: Records of Trailblazing Latino Journalist Association Find Home at USC Libraries

University of Southern California: Records of Trailblazing Latino Journalist Association Find Home at USC Libraries. “The USC Libraries have acquired the records of CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California, the trailblazing professional association fostering diversity within the news media for more than a half century. Founded in 1972 in Los Angeles and formerly known as the California Chicano News Media Association, CCNMA was the first advocacy organization for journalists of color to incorporate. To this day, it promotes the advancement of Latino journalists through scholarships to high school and college students, educational programs, job fairs, and professional development opportunities.”

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November 4, 2023

California State University Northridge: Farmworker Oral Histories Dramatized, Posted on YouTube By CSUN Students & Faculty to Explore History of UFW

California State University Northridge: Farmworker Oral Histories Dramatized, Posted on YouTube By CSUN Students & Faculty to Explore History of UFW. “They were the foot soldiers in the early days of the United Farm Workers, then known as the National Farm Workers Association. Their actions laid the foundation for much of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and ‘70s. The oral histories 0f Bobby de la Cruz, Carmen Hernández, María and Antonia Saludado, Jose Serda and Richard Chávez were collected decades ago and are part of the archives of California State University, Northridge’s Tom & Ethel Bradley Center. Those very personal stories have been turned into dramatizations by CSUN students available on YouTube for a new generation to learn from.”

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November 2, 2023

ABC News (Australia): A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, X is now a ‘worthless’ platform some say is no longer safe for activists

ABC News (Australia): A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, X is now a ‘worthless’ platform some say is no longer safe for activists. “Over the past 12 months, Mr Musk has gutted content moderation, restored accounts of previously banned extremists, and allowed users to purchase account verification. The blue bird logo has since disappeared, and so too have many advertisers and users who could no longer make sense of — or feel safe on — the platform now known as X.”

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October 3, 2023

WIRED: This Website Exposes the Truth About Soaring Food Prices

WIRED: This Website Exposes the Truth About Soaring Food Prices. “IT DIDN’T TAKE long for Mario Zechner to prove the government wrong. In May, the independent software developer was listening to a radio interview with Austria’s labor minister, Martin Kocher, who said the government would build a new database that will help people find the cheapest milk, eggs, and other supermarket products to help fight soaring food prices. However, the planned system would take months to build and cover only a handful of food types. Zechner decided to take action. Two hours after hearing the interview, Zechner had built the first prototype of a comparison system, pulling the cost of 22,000 items from the websites of Austria’s biggest two supermarket chains.”

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October 1, 2023

Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation: IPLC Launches the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran Web Archive

Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation: IPLC Launches the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran Web Archive. “The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran web archive, curated by librarians at the IPLC. This web archive preserves material on, about, and from the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of Iran, which emerged in the wake of the 2022 police killing of Mahsa Jîna Amini.”

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September 25, 2023

WIRED: Meet the Law Geeks Exposing Google’s Secretive Antitrust Trial

WIRED: Meet the Law Geeks Exposing Google’s Secretive Antitrust Trial. “MONTHS OUT OF law school, Yosef Weitzman already has a huge courtroom role in the biggest antitrust trial of the century. In a US federal trial that started last week, Google is accused of unlawfully monopolizing online search and search ads. The company’s self-defined mission is to make the world’s information universally accessible, yet Google successfully opposed live streaming the trial and keeping the proceedings wholly open to the public. Enter Weitzman.”

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September 4, 2023

The Guardian: Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses

The Guardian: Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses. “The social media company formerly known as Twitter has been accused in a revised civil US lawsuit of helping Saudi Arabia commit grave human rights abuses against its users, including by disclosing confidential user data at the request of Saudi authorities at a much higher rate than it has for the US, UK, or Canada.”

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August 6, 2023

Washington University in St. Louis: New Grant to Preserve Unseen Interviews with Civil Rights Activists

Washington University in St. Louis: New Grant to Preserve Unseen Interviews with Civil Rights Activists. “The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) awarded the Washington University Libraries Film & Media Archive a grant of $36,275.85 under its Recordings at Risk program to preserve over 100 interviews with civil rights activists.”

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July 27, 2023

Digital Library of Georgia: Oral history interviews of W. W. Law, civil rights workers, and 20-century Savannah civil rights history are now available freely online

Digital Library of Georgia: Oral history interviews of W. W. Law, civil rights workers, and 20-century Savannah civil rights history are now available freely online . “The content for this project consists of oral history interview videos with W. W. Law and other Savannah, Georgia, community members involved in the Civil Rights movement. The tapes were shot just prior to Mr. Law’s death and are the longest and most detailed interviews he did on his life and career as a Civil Rights activist.”

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July 4, 2023

Pew: #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10

Pew: #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10. “In July 2013, activists first used the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to spark conversation about racism, violence and the criminal justice system following George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Ten years later, Black Lives Matter stands as a model of a new generation of social movements intrinsically linked to social media.”

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