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links for 2006-01-30

Posted: January 30th, 2006 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | 1 Comment »

Why parents must mind MySpace – Dateline NBC – MSNBC.com

OMG NOES! MySpace is the new scourge of hypervigilant overparenting. O RLY? YA RLY! I have been avoiding these ridiculous articles because they make me angry, but I only see this sort of sentiment increasing as MySpace is out of control popular.

(tags: sns myspace business community culture rhetoric)
Greek Dictionary for People Who Don’t Speak Greek

Words you’re likely to come across reading texts. I’m reading Derrida on Plato right now so this should come in handy.

(tags: language academic theory dictionary useful reference)
English Studies and Political Literacy | CultureCat

Really excellent blog post summarizing a conference session about political literacy amongst undergraduates. This is a major concern for myself and everyone else I know who teaches at the college level; recommended if you deal with students on any level.

(tags: academic teaching politics literacy)

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Alice E. Marwick (alicetiara) is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, where she teaches classes on social media and digital culture. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA, where she worked closely with danah boyd studying social software. She received her PhD from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU in 2010. Her new book, Status Update: Celebrity and Attention in Social Media (Yale University Press 2013), examines how people use social media to boost social status, focusing on life-streaming, micro-celebrity, and self-branding. This blog focuses on academic work, technology, pop culture, communication, and media studies. (I spend more time on Twitter than anywhere else.)