Category: Media

Facebook users’ emotions controlled by manipulating newsfeed content

June 29, 2014 benign0 6 Comments

Facebook and other social media networks seem to have come of age. That is, like mainstream media corporations, they are now in a position to deliberately manipulate their audience’s emotions. The results of an experiment conducted on almost 700,000 Facebook users published on the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Filipino ideal of female beauty stands out in global Photoshop doll-up project!

June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 benign0 26 Comments

The Huffington Post article is pretty self-explanatory, What Happened When One Woman Had Her Picture Photoshopped In 25 Different Countries. The outcome was quite revealing following its author’s simple instructions as part of a rather clever project… “Make me look beautiful.” That’s what Esther Honig asked 40 photo editors to do — in over 25…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

6 facts of life according to Game of Thrones

June 27, 2014June 28, 2014 Ilda 23 Comments

If you haven’t seen any episode of the international hit television series Game of Thrones which is based on the best-selling novels, well I suggest you better start watching them now because what you are about to read contains spoilers. Yes, I don’t mind if you read this article after you’ve seen the series or…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics, Society

Sen Bong Revilla could’ve had VIP treatment in jail had he and his entourage just kept their mouths shut

June 26, 2014May 12, 2019 benign0 16 Comments

Filipinos today are gleefully scrutinising, “debating”, and exchanging trivial factoids on the minutiae of the manner with which two popular Philippine Senators, Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla, are being detained by the state on “plunder” charges — the physical conditions of their jail cells, what they’re having for breakfast and lunch, how they look in…

Crime, Lifestyle, Media

Deeply mysterious: Philippine President BS Aquino’s veto of Nora Aunor’s National Artist bid

June 25, 2014October 23, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

Strange that a government that gives the time of day to the adolescent rants of has-been starlets like Lani Mercado, wife of embattled Senator Bong Revilla (who languishes in prison awaiting trial for alleged pork barrel thievery), would suddenly invoke that all-too-familiar Filipino-style debate-ender when it came to explaining why it had reportedly “snubbed” popular…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Will global ‘outrage’ over jailed Al Jazeera journalists turn into CONCRETE action?

June 24, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Global outrage has erupted over the harsh prison sentences meted out to Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed last Monday. The three were successfully prosecuted in an Egyptian court for allegedly “undermining” Egypt’s “national security” supposedly by supplying false news and aiding terrorist movements deemed threats to the Egyptian government. Being…

Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Malacanang gives former starlet Lani Mercado the time of day

June 24, 2014 benign0 6 Comments

It’s as if it weren’t an infantile enough act that Lani Mercado, Cavite Representative and wife of imprisoned Senator Bong Revilla would announce her plans to spitefully skip attending the 28th July State of the Nation Address (SONA) of Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III on account of her fears that she and Revilla…

Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics

Whistleblower app SecureDrop takes investigative journalism to the 21st Century!

June 23, 2014 benign0 2 Comments

A system that allows anonymous informants to send electronic documents without fear of disclosure developed by the late Internet ‘hacktivist’ Aaron Swartz and investigative journalist Kevin Poulsen back in 2011 is gaining traction amongst big-name international media organisations. Originally named DeadDrop, management and rollout of the system has since been taken over by the Freedom…

Media, Tech Talk