Sentences with phrase «social reading experiments»

They cover the most political and fraught subjects: the future of Amazon and other book retailers, what to look for from a Random House and Penguin merger, what might work as a strategy for the other general publishers, and what to expect from illustrated books in digital and the various social reading experiments, and much more...

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Two problems dogged the experiment however: Traffic patterns were unpredictable — an early manifestation of the News Feed algorithm problem — and it spooked users by showing people in their social graph what they had been reading.

Or you can read about the actual social experiments on participation in things like torture (There's a movie on it called «The wave»).

I recently read the book French Kids Eat Everything by Karen le Billon, a North American (from Canada) who decided that she wanted to move her family to France (her husband is French) as a social experiment.

Release: Friday, March 17, 2017 [Theater] Written by: James Gunn Directed by: Greg McLean Office workers at a mysterious nonprofit organization on the outskirts of the Colombian capital of Bogotá participate, let's call it reluctantly, in a twisted social experiment wherein they must murder a certain number of their colleagues within a certain timeframe or else everyone in the building goes... Continue reading The Belko experiment wherein they must murder a certain number of their colleagues within a certain timeframe or else everyone in the building goes... Continue reading The Belko ExperimentExperiment

Beginning in 1961 at Yale, renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) wielded the baton on a series of psychological experiments in which subjects believed they were administering electrical shocks to an amiable and innocent subject, a stranger, in... Read more»

The system resembles a more competition - focused version of social reading startup Wattpad in some ways, but this is very much commerce driven, whereas Wattpad is about providing a free publishing platform for entire works first, and only recently started dabbling in crowdsourcing with its crowdfunding book publishing experiments.

While there's no harm in copying other authors» approaches or strategies on social media, or experimenting with the advice you read or hear about, I find that every author ultimately has to come up with their own unique model that works for them — which evolves over time as your career grows and as your experience grows.

Today, Nesta, Beijing - based social network, Douban and The Literary Platform are launching an experiment that will propel the work of... Read more»

Suddenly I'm moving through the park to read each blurb in some strange social console experiment, and despite every legitimate word against Nintendo's long standing resistance to online gaming, the signature charm of the company's designs have come from behind to offer something that grasps the online space in ways few of us could have anticipated.

Assisted in classrooms at the local YMCA reading «corestorybooks» that promoted vocabulary and comprehension by reading high - quality children's literature together; designed fun learning activities that let children experiment and practice with words and ideas to deepen their understanding of books; and encourage social interaction through group activities designed to develop and promote language and literacy skills.