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Join Sascha H. Funk, the current head of media studies at Thammasat University, as he explores the impact of media on our lives. Dive into thought-provoking discussions on mindful media consumption, digital trends, and effective communication strategies.
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Two Thirds of the Attention: How Saxony-Anhalt Happened (opens the original)
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Between the first of June and the end of August, political accounts in Saxony-Anhalt collected around 43.4 million views on TikTok. Sixty-four and a half percent of them went to a single account. On Sunday the party behind that account took 43.8 percent of the vote, more than doubling its 2021 result and recording the strongest far-right performance in any German state election since the war. I'm German, I teach media and communication studies, and this episode is not about how that feels. It's
Zuckerberg Says the Future Is for Everyone. I Have Five Questions and He Fails All of Them. (opens the original)
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Five questions that will ruin every app you love, and a sixth one that matters more than all of them. I teach a platform teardown framework to my Digital Strategy students. Five questions, run them on any company, get an uncomfortable answer in ten minutes. This episode is those five questions, anchored to three stories from the last six months: Grab finally turned a profit. Thirteen years after founding, $200 million net, on $22 billion of transaction value. The "strategic subsidy" everyone def
OpenAI Can't Make Money, X Won't Die, and Google Search Got Worse On Purpose (opens the original)
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I started teaching a new semester this week. Digital Strategy, week one, the same three theories I open with every year. Ten minutes in I realised I wasn't teaching theory anymore. I was reading the news out loud with citations attached. Three frameworks, three stories happening right now: Platform economics. OpenAI built the most talked-about product of the decade, has hundreds of millions of users, and is reportedly losing billions a year. Microsoft has the distribution. Every startup on earth
FIFA Caved to a Phone Call. Taylor Swift's Wedding Went Full AI. Great Week for Media Theory. (opens the original)
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Two stories this week that look completely unrelated. A presidential phone call to a football governing body. A celebrity wedding at Madison Square Garden with zero authorised photos. Both ended the same way: the people trying to control the story lost control of it completely. FIFA reversed Folarin Balogun's World Cup red card ban after Trump personally called Gianni Infantino. No explanation given. First time in 64 years a player avoided a suspension after being sent off at a World Cup. The US
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