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Gender agenda (review of Deborah Cameron's book Do Men and Women Really Speak Different... - 2 views

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Language Part 1 Gender Men Talk Women Talk

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Steven Poole finds the differences between men and women have little to do with speech in Deborah Cameron's Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? (Book review)

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More than words - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Gender Identity Idiolect

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The language we use, and even the sound of our own voice reveals much more about us than we may think.

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We Are In The Dawn Of The "Like" Dependency, And If You Don't Know What That Means, Jus... - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Social media PSA Parody

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Parody of a PSA, but its message is relevant.

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#instacurity - we live our lives to be liked - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Social media Parody

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in-sta-cur-ity (n). an excessive concern with one's social media presence, influence, and/or liveability.

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Teenagers Prove Fickle When Choosing Social Networks - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Social media Teens Twitter Facebook

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Last year, reports consistently found that teens were not very interested in Twitter but were unhealthily addicted to Facebook. Now that seems to be flipping. (NYT)

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Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals by Jib Fowles - 0 views

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Mass communication Advertising Text types Part 2

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How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Culture Bilingualism Code-switching Spanish

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Anzaldua, poet, feminist, and writer, writes in "How to Tame a wild Tongue" about her life as an Hispanic immigrant to the US, and how the new language and culture were "forced" upon her.

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Why was Cheryl Cole fired? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Accents

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Catherine Gee considers whether Cheryl Cole was fired from the US X Factor because of her strong Geordie (Newcastle) accent. (The Telegraph)

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See Why We Have An Absolutely Ridiculous Standard Of Beauty In Just 37 Seconds - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 1 Image Gender Beauty

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Video.

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Dark Girls: Race, beauty, and bias - 0 views

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Literature Bluest Eye Part 4 Beauty Race

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9-minute trailer for the documentary Dark Girls. In it, African American women discuss their own experiences of bias toward dark-skinned women, both in pop culture broadly and from people in their own lives.

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Dark Girls: New Documentary From Producer Bill Duke Tackles Colorism - 0 views

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Literature Part 4 Bluest Eye Beauty Race Discrimination

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"Dark Girls" is a powerful documentary on the issue of the separation - between light-skinned and dark-skinned African-Americans.

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Shocking Video Reveals Photoshop Trickery - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Image Beauty Photoshop

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Time-lapse video shows how photo-retouching software transforms a model's appearance

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Is your costume racist? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Culture Stereotypes Racism Halloween

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Halloween costume checklist

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Images spark racism debate in Thailand - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Racism Advertising Thailand

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Newley Purnell explores how ads for "charcoal" doughnuts and skin-whitening cream have sparked a heated debate about racism in Thailand (New Yorker)

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Robots or Aliens as Parents? Colleges Gauge Applicants' Creativity - 0 views

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College apps

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More US universities are including offbeat essay topics on students' admissions applications to separate the highly creative from the highly ordinary.

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