Top 10 at the start of the social media revolution in 2023

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Date Submitted: 12/07/2022 02:27 PM

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Summary: The Arab Spring presented a unique moment in history when rising inequality in the middle east combined with the wide proliferation of affordable information technology.  Whereas previously owning a smartphone with a functioning internet connection was a luxury only the middle classes could afford, with the turn of the decade, use of social media applications like Facebook and free messaging services like WhatsApp spread like wildfire.

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Date Submitted: 08/24/2019 03:06 AM

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Date Submitted: 01/18/2020 11:32 AM

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Summary: Social media sites are used by more than two-thirds of internet users. How has social media grown over time?

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Date Submitted: 08/02/2019 02:15 AM

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Author: www.bbc.com

Date Submitted: 06/30/2021 11:05 AM

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Author: dlavenda.medium.com

Date Submitted: 02/03/2022 08:05 AM

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Summary: Our world has entered a digital age, where technology has made leaps and bounds and is accelerating in development. With this digital age came the widespread use of the internet and the emergence of “social media”—online platforms for communicating with others. Though the initial use of these social media platforms was to stay connected with friends and family, a sect of users have used the platforms to share news and important information. In the past few years, people have come together to demand change in their countries by protest and eventually even revolution, all of which is said to have been enabled by social media which allowed people to connect in a way previously impossible. Social media has now become a topic of debate with its importance to these movements, with one side arguing that social media only leads to “slacktivism” while the other side argues that social media is essential to modern-day uprisings, networking, and activism. I will be utilizing this ISP as part of my undergraduate thesis, which will be on the relationship between the emergence/use of social media and the awareness/spread of human rights, as well as the reaction of governments to the utilization of social media. In the case of Tunisia, I wish to look at the revolution through the lens of human rights. The main question I would like to answer is: To what extent did social media influence the demand for human rights and uprising during, before, and after the revolution?

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Date Submitted: 05/03/2022 08:38 PM

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Date Submitted: 07/20/2020 08:26 AM

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Author: commons.wikimedia.org

Date Submitted: 10/17/2021 01:11 PM

Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 23436 reviews)

Summary: This is an extract from the ‘Media Rights’ Chapter of the Sports Law Yearbook 2015/16 – UK, Ireland and EU, an eBook publication by LawInSport & British Association for Sport and Law.

The Yearbook reviews developing sports law trends in the UK, Ireland and Europe. It contains legal commentary and analysis from over 50 leading sports lawyers and will be of use to students, academics, athletes, coaches, the media, sports business professionals, in-house counsel and lawyers worldwide.

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Whilst the cultural shift in the way in which viewers access and consume sports content has been developing for a few years – 61% of consumers are reported to follow sport online, with the last 3 years seeing the percentage of fans viewing sports content on their smart devices increase from 21% to 39%1 – 2015 is likely to be seen as the year that this shift was fully embraced by the sports industry.

This was a significant year not only for the sports media industry itself, in which the “anywhere, anytime” requirements of the modern day sports fan were embraced by rightsholders and broadcasters, but also for sports lawyers.

It is not just the medium by which content is accessed that we have seen change, the exponential growth of platforms through which fans can consume sport also had a significant impact on the sports media landscape, with one in four fans accessing sports content via social media.2

This extract will explore the challenges and opportunities that both social media and smart devices have presented over the last 12 months – which, given the cross border nature of social media and new technologies, requires a global review – together with the key provisions that sports lawyers have had to consider when drafting and negotiating media rights agreements in order to appropriately reflect, and deal with, the impact of new technology on sports media rights programmes.

Opportunities

Fan Engagement

As noted by Simon Greenberg (global head of rights at News Corp), social media platforms and smart devices provide rights holders and broadcasters with a number of important opportunities, including,

“the connectivity you get with the user, the speed you can get to the user, and the way you can target the [sports] fan.”3

This has driven rights holders, particularly in the US (such as the NBA and the NFL), to increase the quality of the engagements and interactions with fans via social media by expanding existing relationships with various digital platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat to make official in-game video clips and fan-generated content more widely available online4.

As detailed in section one, 2015 also saw the NBA launch a new service utilising its presence on Twitter and Facebook to drive fans to their OTT “League Pass” product by incorporating links at the bottom of its posts and tweets, directing fans to pages where they could buy access to the individual game that the post/tweet related to.

Social media platforms themselves are also beginning to view the provision of sports content as a key component of their service to drive users to their platforms, with Facebook seeking to take on Twitter in the sports arena with the recent launch of a new platform called “Facebook Sports Stadium”, where Facebook users will be able to access “real-time updates on games, popular posts from other fans, statistics and commentary from experts”.5

We have also seen the opportunity afforded by social media to provide a platform for “consumers [to] react to live sports”6, demonstrated by the increase in the use of so-called “second screens” by sports fans (e.g. the use of computers, laptops, smartphones or tablets whilst watching sport on television). There is also the provision of interactive features by licensees (e.g. red button services) for additional sports content (e.g. text commentary, live scores, clips and/or live footage), in-match betting, engaging with teams, athletes and other fans about the content being broadcast and accessing match statistics.

This increased connectivity presents a range of opportunities for rights holders and licensees to provide added-value not only to their fans and consumers, but also to their commercial partners, for example through access to additional premium content, competitions, in-play fantasy games, targeted advertising, sponsor-led content and as a mechanism for extending the commercial reach of commercial partners.

In 2014, we saw the launch of CityMatchday, a dedicated second screen match day app, which allowed users to watch live footage from the players’ tunnel, the post-match managers’ press conference and in-match and half-time commentary from pundits, fans and special guests7 together with access to a highlights channel and “Tactical Cam”. This was not the end of Manchester City’s innovation as 2015 saw them become the first football club to develop a wearable technology companion app, which granted fans access to matchday stats and commentary via their Android smartwatch8.

Whilst the use of “second screens” or interactive services presents a fantastic opportunity for rights holders and licensees, it does need to be carefully managed within the relevant media rights agreement.

In particular, rights holders need to ensure that the integrity of their product (e.g. sport, league, team etc.) and the rights granted to their commercial partners are not compromised by any additional content and/or services provided by their licensees.

As such, rights holders look to impose strict conditions and/or ensure that they retain approval rights over what can be broadcast as part of a licensee’s interactive services. Furthermore, particularly where an interactive service relates to a category of rights already granted to an official sponsor (e.g. official data partner or betting partner), the media rights agreement will seek to prohibit the applicable licensee from exploiting the service during its coverage unless licensed through the relevant official partner (e.g. a licensee should be prevented from providing match statistics unless that data is licensed from the official data partner).

In addition, where a rights holder is seeking to exploit rights itself (e.g. Manchester City’s distribution of content via its mobile and smartwatch apps), it is critical that this exploitation is carved out of the media rights agreement (e.g. as part of the reserved rights).

Fan Reach

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Author: iwpr.net

Date Submitted: 01/09/2019 04:01 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 44289 reviews)

Summary: Several studies reveal that women outnumber men in use and time spent on social media.

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