So in college, I was a government major, which means I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little like this. So, you know — (Laughter) you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the […]
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Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada
Translator: Marta Palacio Reviewer: Denise RQ Consider this fictitious example that’s inspired by real life: say you’re watching the news, and you see a story about a new study on the cholesterol-lowering drug called cholextra. The study says cholextra is so effective that doctors should consider prescribing it to adults and even children who don’t […]
Jennifer Golbeck: The curly fry conundrum: Why social media “likes” say more than you might think
If you remember that first decade of the web, it was really a static place. You could go online, you could look at pages, and they were put up either by organizations who had teams to do it or by individuals who were really tech-savvy for the time. And with the rise of social media […]
Lessons from ancient social media | Tom Standage | TEDxOxbridge
Translator: Marine Gallois Reviewer: Els De Keyser (Applause) I’m going to talk to you about social media. And you may say: “Not someone else waffling on about social media !” But I am going to give you a different way of looking at social media, one that I am pretty confident you won’t have heard […]
Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really?
Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast I’ve always written primarily about architecture, about buildings, and writing about architecture is based on certain assumptions. An architect designs a building, and it becomes a place, or many architects design many buildings, and it becomes a city, and regardless of this complicated mix of forces of politics and […]
Friendship in the Age of Facebook: Rory Varrato at TEDxGrandviewAve
Translator: Mohand Habchi Reviewer: Denise RQ I’m faced with the perennial problem one has when confronted with a brilliant and a beautiful crowd such as this, and that is, I have so much I’d like to talk with you about and no much time to do it in. So I apologize if I move quickly, […]
How the media affects youth | Oda Faremo Lindholm | TEDxOslo
Translator: Cuicani Ríos Reviewer: Wenzi Yang Hi! As a kid I grew up with a mom who was Minister of Justice and therefore our little family was early introduced to all things new: cell phones, and cars, and briefcases computers, the internet. Growing up, I became more and more interested in how media pop culture […]
The price of shame | Monica Lewinsky
You’re looking at a woman who was publicly silent for a decade. Obviously, that’s changed, but only recently. It was several months ago that I gave my very first major public talk, at the Forbes “30 Under 30 Summit” — 1,500 brilliant people, all under the age of 30. That meant that in 1998, the […]
David Puttnam: What happens when the media’s priority is profit?
I’d like to start, if I may, with the story of the Paisley snail. On the evening of the 26th of August, 1928, May Donoghue took a train from Glasgow to the town of Paisley, seven miles east of the city, and there at the Wellmeadow Café, she had a Scots ice cream float, a […]
My story | Elizabeth Smart | TEDxUniversityofNevada
Translator: Sue Kronenfeld Reviewer: Ellen Maloney I don’t know anyone who has a perfect life; nobody. And I know that every single one of us have our own personal challenges, and trials and there are days when we wish that we didn’t have to get out of bed. There are days when we wish we […]