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It is possible.

Social media analytics. Who are the humans behind all that data?

A Q&A with the Pam Grossman, Getty's director of visual trends, on the visual images of women in the media

What some may call the ultimate vanity project, a new generation of beauty bloggers are using social-media success for entrepreneurship.

I wish I could take the credit for finding this site, but Remi had a link from her blog to this site, and I found it really interesting!

The digital programs look groovy. Some were even developed by graduate students. I plan to use a couple of them in my work.

It's groovy that digital humanities scholarship is getting some serious money.

This is an awesome change. The Getty photos are groovy.

Class assignment in NYT....

Interesting point about television in the article.

This article is about the increasing need for creativity thinking.

If you are interested in this topic, Professor Magda Grohman in Arts and Humanities teaches on this topic occasionally.

"Such a system would fly in the face of net neutrality principles, which call upon Internet service providers to treat all types of websites the same -- whether they're big or small, complex or simple, corporate or independent." h/t aksparling

This article relates directly to some of the readings we had this week about infrastructure, protocol, and net neutrality. North Korea has strict control over what its citizens can access, but it does allow the tiniest trickle of real internet into the country... will that inevitably lead to raising citizens' awareness? "Still, some experts believe that as more North Koreans become familiar with the benefits of going online - a trend that would seem inevitable if North Korea is to keep afloat in the information age - it will become increasingly difficult for the ruling regime to keep the IT dam from bursting."

Quote from story... "The content is what makes the medium social, not the other way around. An empty coffee shop is not good strategy." NJM

Just found this site Vizify.com it is a web builder site, but it also tracks your activity on the social media sites you want it to. Just thought it was fun to see and maybe helpful too. I thought about @purplekimchi and her tracking charts of our tweets when I saw this.

Good Q&A Site, Thank you EMAC 6342 and Prof. Shen!

As an EMAC graduate student and veteran journalist, this piece was very intriguing.

A little middle-of-the-semester pickmeup for your tired brains.