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17 Black Women in Science and Tech You Should Know - The Root - 0 views

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    African-American female trailblazers are leading the way
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About Corvida - SheGeeks - 0 views

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    A very user friendly kind of place.
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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.
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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....
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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.
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Is First Kiss the most successful fashion film ever? | Dazed - 0 views

  • So far, Wren founder and creative director Melissa Coker has maintained that the cast in the film are actually her real-life friends and colleagues. They're just, you know, super good-looking. Obvs. 
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      This gets to the question of authenticity.
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Understanding bias in computational news media » Nieman Journalism Lab - 1 views

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    More on journalism, codes and algorithms
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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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