Blogging
2001: the year blogging changed the world
Yet we wouldn't realise how much for two decades
TikTok
TikTok made me love it
A new genre of fiction is filling up the bestseller lists. And guess what's putting it there?
influencers
Yes, you can buy an Influencer jacket now
Outdoors brand Jack Wolfskin is getting down with those hip influencer kids…
photography
Non-binary stock photography
Vice's Broadly brand has release some free stock photography featuring trans and non-binary folk.
Social Media
What will the next generation of social media-savvy politicians look like?
An attempt to mock Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for dancing in a video when she was a student opens up the question of how social media will impact the next generation of politicians.
culture
How does it feel to be a journalist from an NRA-supporting family?
This is a thought-provoking piece from a journalist who grew up in an NRA member family [https://medium.com/@kelliannejones/im-a-journalist-and-the-daughter-of-an-n-r-a-member-why-it-s-time-to-tell-my-story-9782ae97aad9] in the USA: > My father’s interest in guns began as a young man who saved up to buy 60 acres in the Maine wilderness where he could
culture
Even in the depths of the social media backlash, there’s reason for hope
At the end of a session at LCC [http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-journalism/] today — I’m doing a small series of workshops on social media in journalism for the 2nd year undergraduates there under the auspices of Russell Merryman [http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/people/
culture
Finstas - your other Instagram identity
There’s no small irony that the sheer manufactured fakeness of so many Instagram accounts has provoked a e]rsponse, with somewhat more real accounts called Finstas – for fake Instagrams: [https://qz.com/1065732/finstas-or-fake-instagram-accounts-expose-the-troubling-way-that-work-is-taking-over-our-lives/] > But shaping your Instagram and Facebook accounts to appeal to potential employers is restrictive.
culture
The Instagram effect on real estate
Instagram may be having a more profound effect on our culture than we think. First, people started creating dishes just for Instagram. And now? > Now some entrepreneurs are taking the idea a step further, designing their physical spaces in the hopes of inspiring the maximum number of photos. They’
culture
The danger of an over-simplifying culture
Seth Godin [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2017/01/the-candy-diet.html] : > The bestselling novel of 1961 was Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent [http://amzn.to/2jmCFGM]. Millions of people read this 690-page political novel. In 2016, the big sellers were coloring books. Fifteen years ago, cable channels
academia
Prof Brian Cox on the anti-expert mood
> It’s entirely wrong, and it’s the road back to the cave. The way we got out of the caves and into modern civilisation is through the process of understanding and thinking. Those things were not done by gut instinct. Being an expert does not mean that you
bloom county
The end of the shared media moment
Berkeley Breathed on the reaction to his return to Bloom County [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/07/14/berkeley-breathed-speaks-here-is-why-bloom-county-is-really-returning/] : > “There is no media that will allow a Charlie Brown or a Snoopy to become a universal and shared joy each morning at the same moment across