Mobile trends 2012-2013
comScore has released its latest Mobile Future in Focus report for the US (a separate report for the UK is also available). The report analyses the mobile landscape in 2012 and sets about making...
View ArticleBehaving badly on social media
This week the UK’s first ever ‘youth police and crime commissioner’ resigned after less than a week in the post. Paris Brown, who is 17, had published a number of tweets which critics condemned as...
View ArticleThe future of TV
Variety has published a story about a new reality show called @SummerBreak. That might not sound too interesting, but what makes this show stand out is that it will unfold over four social media...
View ArticleTeenagers, Facebook and message apps
If teenagers are losing interest in Facebook, where are going – and why? Facebook’s Q3 earnings statement revealed that it had exceeded its revenue targets. However, in the company’s accompanying...
View ArticleSelfie is the word of the year
“Is this a selfie which I see before me, The angle toward my hand? Come, let me tweet thee*” Oxford Dictionaries have announced that their word of the year for 2013 is ‘selfie’. Over the course of the...
View ArticleYouth TV – ‘the need for speed’
The BBC’s youth TV channel to close; but a different story emerges in Belgium In the UK the BBC has announced that it is to close its ‘youth-oriented’ TV channel and move the content onto its online...
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