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From: Biography[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Naghibi evaluates the significance of social media and internet-based activism within the global reaction to the 2009 Iranian presidential elections. Naghibi focuses on the use...
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From:Nordic Journal of English Studies (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis study investigates use of the contested term politically correct (PC) in written conversational exchanges on Twitter. PC is sometimes assumed to be entirely a fabrication by conservatives or the far right, not a...
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From:The New York Times Book ReviewI first ventured onto MySpace this winter. After a few minutes of exploring, I clicked into a profile posted by a girl smashed on vodka. Her photo showed her slumped across her desk, blond hair fanning over her laptop....
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From:Biography (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLifestory-sharing sites have never been as popular as today. These sites interpret the act of "sharing" life stories as a form of communal endeavor, and argue that publicly shared life stories will lead to more...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedPolitical actors are using algorithms and automation to sway public opinion, notably through the use of "bot" accounts on social networking sites. This article considers the responsibility of social networking sites and...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 151, Issue 5689)Sunday was difficult. Sundays often are. This one was worse than usual, for some reason. The loneliness seemed even harder to bear than the Sundays before. As a little cry for help, a bleat in the wilderness, I put up,...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedHenry Jenkins: There have been long-standing discussions of "participation" in political theory. So, what ideas from this literature do we think might be useful for discussing the "participatory turn" in contemporary...
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From:Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEvelyn Waugh has a Facebook page that can be viewed at http://www.facebook.com/. Over one thousand people have identified themselves as fans. There are pages for Fans of Evelyn Waugh, Intl. (689 members), the Auberon...
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From:Afro-Hispanic Review (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs Vanessa Chestnut reported in 2018, "at the Lower East Side Preparatory High School in New York, it's not unusual to hear different languages flowing in the classroom--in one sentence," as in the following exchange:...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedEmploying original two-wave national panel survey data, this study examines the mediating role of discussion network heterogeneity on social media in the relationship between social media use for news/information and...
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From:Broken Pencil (Issue 51)As I write this, Canadian media's latest discussion is revolving around how our most recent election will be the first "social media election." All I can think is: does anybody care? Now that social media has become...
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn January 2010, the Birmingham, Alabama-based Sloss Performing Arts Company began work on a performance of Romeo and Juliet that experimented with the social network site Facebook to allow their audience the ability to...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedThe small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is adopting digital media in culturally specific ways. For this traditionally oral culture with little interest in newspapers, digital media such as Facebook and Twitter sit...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedThis article presents an analysis of public debate about a pressing political issue on a novel Web arena in a small linguistic community: the debate on Twitter about the implementation of the European Union's Data...
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From:Biography (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEXPLORING IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES In recent years narratology studies that specifically concentrate on processes of identity construction and self-reflective writing (such as diaries and...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSimply put, a memoir is "a book about the life of the author" (Miller 540). However, as writing and communication technologies change, the bounds of what constitutes a memoir expand. What are the consequences of a...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5968-5969)The Word of the Year last year, according to Oxford Dictionaries, was "post-truth", denoting our global society's reluctance to care collectively about things like honesty or veracity. Whether our insouciance towards...
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From:Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy (Issue 149) Peer-ReviewedAccess to social network sites (SNS) in the workplace has been much debated. While some consider SNS a distraction, others consider them a tool for professional socialisation and that recreational access positively...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 350, Issue 10135)The most important job of any union is to support its members against bullies. So why has the Society of Authors, a sort of posh union for writers, illustrators and translators, failed to support members who are...
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From:Linguistik Online (Vol. 56, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedScholarly research on computer-mediated communication discourse has mainly centred upon the linguistic characteristics of emails, focusing on the formal and informal features and the orality involved in this form of...