Today a long journey in the car (4 hours to be precise) afforded me the opportunity to catch up on a couple of podcasts I've been wanting to listen to for a while. The first is a piece on the evolution of Facebook's community guidelines - what is (to them) acceptable to post or not. There are other articles I've watched on this issue - filter bubbles etc, but this one does quite a good job on presenting the timeline of the development of their guidelines. It will be interesting to see where they go with this as very few of the younger generation (school age) go anywhere near the Facebook platform (they use their products however, namely Instagram) and the older generation (mine for example) are becoming more disillusioned with the data breaches and growing lack of confidence in the 'purity' of posts on their wall. Take a listen for yourself:
The second podcast is related to the research I'm doing for the parent workshop on gaming. I'm familiar with Twitch and have heard of the gamer called Ninja, but simply had no idea regarding his level of success and influence. I'll definitely be weaving aspects from this podcast into the forthcoming workshop with parents. Much shorter at 15 minutes, if you're not familiar with either Twitch or Ninja, I highly recommend you listen to it on the link below: