“YouTube is taking additional steps to restrict the possibility that children will be targeted by predators on the video platform — including banning young kids from live-streaming with[out] adult supervision. The Google-owned video platform, in a blog post Monday, also said it is limiting recommendations of videos that depict ‘minors in risky situations.’” – Variety
Tag: 06.03.19
YouTube Algorithm Started Directing Pedophiles To Home Videos Of Children
“YouTube never set out to serve users with sexual interests in children — but in the end, … its automated system managed to keep them watching with recommendations that [are] ‘disturbingly on point.’ Users do not need to look for videos of children to end up watching them. The platform can lead them there through a progression of recommendations.” – The New York Times
Museum Staffers Across U.S. Are Publicly Revealing Their (Low) Salaries
“Last Friday, museum workers began contributing to a Google Spreadsheet documenting their place of employment, salary rates, and demographic details like race and gender. … Those who contributed to the spreadsheet hope that transparency will lead to some sort of remuneration reform that may also contribute to further diversifying the field.” – Hyperallergic
Controversial Board President Of Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco Steps Down
Philanthropist Dede Wilsey, an heir to the Dow chemical fortune and widow of a Bay Area real estate magnate, is departing after 21 years. “Her generosity to the Fine Arts Museums, among many gifts across the region, is legendary. … Yet for years she was said to run the board like a private club,” and her response to reports of her impending departure in 2016 was defiant. – San Francisco Chronicle
Turkish Filmmaker Chains Himself To Culture Ministry After Authorities Confiscate His Entire Body Of Work
“Oktay İnce, a longtime video activist fighting to retrieve an archive worth 20 years of his work, was held in police custody and accused of terrorist propaganda after he chained himself to a pole outside the culture ministry in Ankara.” – Hyperallergic
The Video Game That Became A Social Network That Makes Participants Feel Better (Says This Research)
A survey by National Research Group says weekly Fortnite players now spend 21% of their free time with the game, and spend 3% less time on social media, which now accounts for 16% of players’ free time. – Fast Company
Auction Of Barnes Collection Founder’s Items Raises New Questions
In March this year, the Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, offered 156 lots of around 430 objects that had belonged to Barnes and his wife Laura. The lots included furniture, clocks, textiles and porcelain objects, and hammered at $98,000 in total. – The Art Newspaper
Camille Billops, Artist And Documentary Filmmaker, Dead At 85
“Billops is best known for documentary works like Finding Christa (1991), a 55-minute film that recounts why she gave up her four-year-old daughter and how they reconnected more than two decades later.” – ARTnews
iTunes, In Memoriam
Now that Apple is moving beyond iTunes, it’s worth remembering how revolutionary iTunes was. Before the iTunes Music Store, your best bet to find music online was through a file-sharing site like Napster. Your only legal options were either niche storefronts, or label-specific ones, none of them user-friendly. iTunes brought purchasing music online into the mainstream. – Wired
Can The New Website ‘3Views On Theater’ Change The Trajectory Of Criticism?
“The plan is to have monthly rotating chief editors, who will help curate the content — slated to comprise around 15 pieces a month — with the help of ongoing editors Michelle Tse (one of Stage & Candor’s editors) and Penny Pun, a playwright. What kind of content, and for whom? [Rob Weinert-Kendt] spoke recently with Tse and Pun, who were joined by two of 3Views’s founders, playwrights Sarah Ruhl and Julia Jordan, about the new magazine’s ambitions and focus.” – American Theatre