It was the shot heard round the world: Breitbart writer and Gamergater Milo Yiannopoulos was permanently banned from Twitter.
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SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS are spaces in which diverse and disparate perspectives can be shared, creating an opportunity for learning, lively debate, political engagement, and…
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YOUR PHONE CHIRPS. Frantically, you reach into your pocket. With sweaty, eager palms, you see it sitting comfortably in your phone’s notifications: one new like.…
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IF YOU’VE GOT a phone and are even remotely plugged in to the world of social media, chances are astronomically high that you’ve come across…
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ARE YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA? Duh. Of course you are. How could you not be? You’re a social kind of guy or gal with an…
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IT WAS early March, which doesn’t mean much to LA. When most sane cities are welcoming spring’s first fragile blossoms as they struggle through the…
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REMEMBER THAT commercial from the ’80s with the guy and the egg and the hot frying pan? “This is your brain,” he ominously said, holding…
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TWITTER has long been maligned as the death of the written word. The Tower of London during Henry VIII’s reign, but for the English language. Off…
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If you worry about your significant other chatting up or being contacted by other virtual hotties on social media, you might not be totally out…
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It wasn’t so long ago that sitting down to watch the six o’clock news was a nightly ritual many families observed as religiously as prayer.…
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Although it might be difficult to do so, many of us can remember a time when the words “Internet,” “social media,” and “digital information” didn’t…
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