socrates and social media: the benefits of an unexamined life
Saturday night sees housemates communicating virtually through their latest favourite app, ‘Draw Something’. It involves drawing a misshapen picture on your smart phone before sending it into cyberspace for a person who is similarly engaged to decipher. Is that portly figure Bert Newton’s head or an eggplant? How do you represent ‘navy’ to an absent [...]
‘haters’ and controversy makers
Two weeks ago, ultra conservative American radio man Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves in criticism. The subject of his critique was Sandra Fluke, a law student who had testified at a Steering Committee hearing in support of having health coverage for contraceptives. Limbaugh’s analysis almost exploded social media, from the moment that he called [...]
lip lit: kate bussmann, a twitter year: 365 days in 140 characters or less
Chances are if you’re reading this, you’re a Gen Y (meaning you were born between 1980-2000, though these dates are not clearly defined). Gen Y are sometimes referred to as the Millennial Generation, Generation Me and the Net Generation. Gen Y is stereotyped as having Peter Pan syndrome, being disrespectful to authority figures, having a sense [...]
Y so lonely?
Are you lonely? It sounds like a question that Joey would ask Pacey, right? So much has the idea of ‘loneliness’ been hijacked by mass media, asking if a friend feels alone might seem tacky or eye roll-worthy. But apparently, Gen Y is one of the loneliest groups in society. Over the past few weeks [...]
the rise of the weblebrity
- by Belle Gleeson It’s a weird word, and an even weirder concept: the ‘weblebrity’. Wikipedia describes the word ‘celebrity’ as ‘a widely-recognised or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention’, and the word web as…well, honestly, we all know what that word means. Weblebrities are the new generation of [...]
imagine
A place where you can tell businesses (and other people) what sucks about their product or service. Tell magazines how you feel about their use of too-skinny models. Tell cosmetics companies that you’re boycotting their products because they still test on animals. Business is sitting up and paying attention to social media. They want to [...]
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