The changing social media landscape

Tech Life

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.4 • 221 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Meta - the owner of Facebook - has launched Threads, a text-based social media app. Tech Life's correspondent in San Francisco tells us about the launch. And we look at the development of social media with Brooke Erin Duffy, an associate professor in the Department of Communications at Cornell University in the United States. Also in Tech Life, we hear from the chief executive of Nextdoor, who has global ambitions. Where does technology and the law meet ? A question being discussed in Nairobi, Kenya. And artificial intelligence reaches lawn tennis at Wimbledon. PHOTO CREDIT: Dado Ruvić, Reuters.

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0:46.1	This week, we're looking at the changing social media landscape.
0:49.3	With the arrival of threads from meta, what does the future hold for many of the platforms so many
0:55.8	of us love to use? It's really remarkable in these three decades how many of us use these
1:01.3	platforms to put our private selves on very public display. I speak to the chief executive
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1:13.5	Where does technology and the law meet?
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