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Google Alert: Art Project, Take 1
As far as the internet is concerned, Google is certainly a trusted name. Providing game-changing web tools time and time again, it would probably be a fair assessment that Google’s mass-scale projects have, in recent years, seriously affected the ways we have integrated the web into how we navigate and experience our everyday lives. This time, however, Google is looking to tackle their most culturally nuanced subject yet: art.
This past week Google went public with their latest venture: The Google Art Project.
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An Apology: Pop Culture and Theories of Affect
I’d like to begin with a confession: I end every Glee episode in tears, and I particularly enjoy it.
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Shakers and Makers
In the opening segment of last week’s Daily Show, a photograph of a tear gas can used by the Egyptian Military against recent protestors with the words “Made in the U.S.A.” crossed the screen with the usual witty banter.
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Propaganda: Who Made Green the ‘New Black’?
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word ‘Propaganda,’ Nazi posters, deceptive slogans, and rumors spreading like wildfire are the images that have always popped into my mind.
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How to Portray Gay: MTV's "Skins" and its Newest Addition
Skins, the UK’s foremost captivating teenage drama, has made it stateside. And, only after two episodes, it has managed to stir up an equal amount of drama off the small screen. Skins premiered in the UK in 2007 and quickly became a cultural phenomenon — although some may say it was the cultural phenomenon that Skins was depicting. The 45-minute episodes are steeped in teenage melodrama, sex, drugs and alcohol, all packaged in a fashion that oddly unleashes recollections of a very real adolescence.
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The Internet: It’s, it’s a series of tubes!
As I entered the restaurant, I wasn’t surprised by what I saw playing on the TV behind the bar. It was Friday night and I had stopped in to grab a quick bite to eat. By that point, the riots in Cairo had been raging for hours. President Mubarak had just announced the firing of his cabinet, presumably as a concession to the Egyptian population who were demanding his resignation. As talking heads pontificated next to images of anarchy, a massive CNN banner announced: “Breaking News: This revolution will be tweeted.”
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The Growing Power of Network Gatekeepers
In a previous post, I had written that because anyone can produce, reproduce and disseminate a product on the Web at a low cost and from virtually anywhere, traditional models and theories of journalistic gatekeeping become less relevant.
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