Posts tagged Social Media
Why You Can’t Escape From The Internet
When toddlers are getting addicted to iPads, parents spy on their kids on Facebook and teenagers can’t survive 24 hours offline without experiencing withdrawal symptoms it’s hard not to blame technology. After all, we wouldn’t be experiencing these problems without technology, so it must be technology which causes them, right? “Fitter, Happier, More Productive” While the symptoms…
If Content Is King, Are We Its Slaves?
Once upon a time we spoke of songs, albums, images and articles. Nowadays, it’s called content: the stuff that makes the world go round. The Waterfall Of ‘Content’ It’s like this huge frickin’ waterfall and you’re just throwing your pebble in and it carries on down the waterfall and that’s that. Right, okay, next. –…
A Brief Guide To Reddit For Publishers
Reddit is beginning to shape and influence the world in ways that are only now becoming apparent, bringing a higher order of organization to content online, and allowing for an evolution in the potential of collaboration. – Blue Glass Blogger Reddit is one of the biggest social media sites most people don’t use. Not…
Small Controlled Bursts Of Boredom: A Cure For Contemporary Click-Frenzies?
“The things people do out of sheer boredom! They study out of boredom; they pray out of boredom; they fall in love, get married and reproduce out of boredom; in the end they die out of boredom.” It was the German author Georg Büchner who put these words into the mouth of his protagonist in the comedy Leonce and Lena written…
Has Content Curation Become A New Creativity For The Masses?
When I first heard the term “digital content curation” I thought of Picasso-peddling online arts merchants, vernissages on Facebook and high heeled iPhone users staggering through Italian designer boutiques. But what does it really mean? Traditionally, the term curator refereed to a person who selects, manages and collects works of art or (cultural artifacts of any…
4 Quick Ways To Use (Social) Media In Foreign Language Teaching
Sometimes, taking a class to learn a language isn’t quite enough. For people that are moving to a new country and want to learn the native tongue of the land, a class or textbook might leave you in the dark when it comes to slang, idioms or figures of speech. For instance, students learning English…