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The Daily Dot - Alex Day and the dangers of YouTube celebrity culture - 0 views

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    Talk about blurred lines on what and who is a celeb now-a-days. Totally gonna use some of this for my Fandom paper. If applicable of course. :)
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Diversity Protests Get Startups' Attention | The Maynard Institute for Journalism Educa... - 0 views

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    When old world problems follow the shiny new thing in digital media.
norma martin

N.Y. Times Vet Keller Calls Diversity a Must at His Startup | The Maynard Institute for... - 0 views

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    Another entry in the journalism startup dust up....
norma martin

Diversity--or lack thereof--in journalism startups - 0 views

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    This has become a hot button issue across many journalism industry blogs and sites in recent days. It started with a column in the Guardian, and now it is going viral.
norma martin

Gotham Gal: Dove's Selfies - 0 views

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    An interesting social media project via Dove. The girls were more comfortable about who they are than their mothers were.
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    There was this great project last year that asked girls to ask what they liked best about either themselves or their bodies and the responses were so cool. One girl really loved her feet because they could take her anywhere!
norma martin

The Accidental History of the @ Symbol - 0 views

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    Smithsonian magazine has the coolest stuff....
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Me, Myself, and Authenticity - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • But some linguists and music historians say the reality is more nuanced. For one thing, frequent use of "I" doesn't signal a haughtier sense of one's status but the opposite, according to James Pennebaker, the social psychologist who invented the text-analysis program used in the 2011 study of song lyrics. The higher a person's standing, the less frequently that person uses 'I' words, according to Pennebaker in his book, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us.
  • People who tell the truth use the word 'I' more.
  • No, "we" isn't necessarily such a communal word after all. It often comes off as presumptive and exclusionary, and can be seen as one group speaking—out of turn—for others.
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  • Even in science writing, where personal pronouns were once forbidden, some journals are now open to informal, active language—though "we" has gained acceptance more quickly than "I."
  • But if someone is saying something that happened to them and it resonates with your own experience, then you don't call it narcissistic. You call it poetry.
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    No, "we" isn't necessarily such a communal word after all. It often comes off as presumptive and exclusionary, and can be seen as one group speaking-out of turn-for others.
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