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David Schonauer Tuesday June 13, 2023
All these years later, after so much discussion, Instagram users are still fuzzy about how the app's feed works--specifically, how it recommends what content people see. In an attempt to dispel
"misconceptions" about how the app's algorithm works, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri recently published a blog post hoping to clear things up. He also tried to explain "shadowbanning," a kind of social
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Center for Creative Photography Monday June 12, 2023
The Phoenix Art Museum and the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography in Tucson have named Emilia Mickevicius as their joint Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography. Mickevicius joins the institutions after five years in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s photography department, where she organized exhibitions of 20th century and contemporary US photography. Mickevicius will divide her time between the two institutions, working with CCP’s collections to curate exhibitions that will be presented at the Phoenix Art Museum’s Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography.
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DAZED Monday June 12, 2023
In early 2018, Ash Rommelrath, founder of the rare book website Rapture Books, was trawling eBay when he came across a mysterious listing from an incognito account. Rommelrath later found himself in possession of a case of photographic slides labelled as Nan Goldin’s famed photography series “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.” Now these slides are the focus of the new exhibition “BALLADS, SOMETHING FOUND…” at the Satellite Gallery in South London’s Peckham district. Dazed tells the remarkable story.
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Mashable Monday June 12, 2023
Since 2020, TikTok creators have been able to monetize their content through the Creator Fund, which provides a revenue stream for popular videos. But now, notes Mashable, the app is will pay for another key creative force in TikTok culture: effects creators. A new $6 million Effect Creator Rewards, will pay creators for the effects they make through the app’s AR development platform, Effect House. Creators will be paid based on users’ engagement with their effects.
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