"social-change" Articles & Blogs:
Social networking is getting socailly conscious!
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According to a new game on Facebook, American 2049, social networking can be socially conscious! The new game is centered on such topics as forced sex work and prostitution, racial profiling, segregation, abortion issues, LGBTQ injustic...[Read on] |
An Annotated Guide to Every Harvard Crimson Article Mentioned in The Social Network
| Photo by Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan.The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s romp through the infancy of Facebook, did quite well at the box office this weekend, taking in $23 million and handily beating its prime competition, a film about owls whose titl...[Read on] |
Social Security at 75: A Cornerstone of America's Future
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by Val Vilott, Outreach AssociateNational Women’s Law Center
Our friends at the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released a video today, celebrating Social Security’s 75th Anniversary. This program continues to be a vital lifeline for peop...[Read on] |
How women rule the web
| Women make up the majorities on social networking and e-commerce sites, and the time and money they spend on these sites considerably exceeds those figures for men. Even on social-gaming sites, thought to be a preserve of men, women predominate. In all, t...[Read on] |
The Social Media Landscape and SEO
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Did you know that your Facebook and Twitter pages can improve your organic search results? Or that Digg is proving to be a valuable tool for traffic generation? Both are true, according to CMO.com's Social Media Landscape for 2011.
Ask Patty loves S...[Read on] |
Girls and the Social Network
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Remember that moment in your Facebook life when Dad joined up? (I know you’re on there, Frank Magee, but I’m not ready to talk about it.) What about your 14-year-old cousin (when did she start wearing eye...[Read on] |
Social Studies: The Week in Twitter Trending Topics
| Friday is here, and with it, VF Daily’s round-up of everything that was important enough to have been Tweeted this week. So many things! Collective marijuana smoking, Icelandic volcanoes, and of course, Mr. Justin Bieber, himself an Icelandic volcano of...[Read on] |
Planning for the Future: What Women Need to Know About Social Security
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Years ago, I attended a retreat held by the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership for twentysomething women. One of the discussions was on financial literacy, and I remember of the twenty women there, I was one of very few with a mutual fund, an IRA, ...[Read on] |
Vote today! 13 ways you can change the world through sports
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… as if you needed ideas.
Today is the last day you can vote for your favorites in the Sport for Change contest finalists run by Nike and Ashoka. This post contains links to the finalists, as well as some social media they’ve shared with the world.
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Cinereach partners with Sundance Institute
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Cinereach is an organization that gives out grants, funds productions in the area of social change. They want to “facilitate the creation of films that challenge, excite, innovate, offer new perspectives and inspire action.”
They are teaming up wit...[Read on] |
Infographic: How the Automotive Industry is Embracing Social Media
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At AskPatty, we keep a keen eye on social media as it relates to the auto industry, and it looks like we're not the only ones. Social media is an interesting venue - success here is not gained by spending money on ads - the big gains here come from out-t...[Read on] |
Social Studies: The Week in Twitter Trending Topics
| It is time, once again, to look back fondly upon the week in Twitter trending topics. We’ve taken screen shots of the top 10 terms every day this week. Naturally, they will all be archived in the Library of VF Daily. Join us, as we trace and analyze our...[Read on] |
Facebook Tries, Fails to Plant Unflattering Stories About Google
| That puppy isn’t following anyone, Zuckerberg.Facebook’s nefarious new public-relations scheme imploded yesterday evening when the Daily Beast revealed the company hired a flack to pitch negative stories about Google to various publications. After bei...[Read on] |
The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
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Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports
I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week,...[Read on] |
The Social Network: Actually Sexist, or an Unwelcome Reflection of Our Times?
| In terms of digital cocktail conversation about success, gender, and the way we live now, The Social Network is the gift that just keeps on giving. Aaron Sorkin finally felt compelled to emerge from the lonely screenwriter’s citadel (his office) and res...[Read on] |
Stereotypical media representations of female athletes starts early
| Today I was preparing for a WeCoach workshop and was looking for some images on IStock.com. Pictured here is a classic example of how the (re)production of gender stereotypes starts early and in ways we might not even notice because they seem so i...[Read on] |
Sometimes change means more of the same
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Congrats to Conan O’Brien for ascending to the pinnacle of TV hosting duties with tonight’s debut as host of The Tonight Show. FYI - there have been four hosts over the years — all white men — and now a fifth white man joins this illustrious clu...[Read on] |
Social Media & Sport Apologies
| Discussion in the Tucker Center this morning was very lively around the topic of Serena Williams’ U.S. Open semifinal outburst, fine, and subsequent apology via her blog and Twitter account (also see picture here).
I have a few other thoughts o...[Read on] |
Tea Party Women Could Change the Score, Long Term
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(WOMENSENEWS)--It could be the way Republican billionaire Meg Whitman is spending record millions of her own money on her gubernatorial campaign in California and attracting attention to her domestic-worker employment practices.
Or maybe it's the upset v...[Read on] |
Oprah Joins Twitter, Tweets to Demi Moore
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Oprah Winfrey tweets on the social-networking service twitter.com; Ashton Kutcher beat CNN and will have to donate 10,000 mosquito nets for World Malaria DayOprah, Ashton, Demi on Twitter | 04/17/2009 1:20 pm
Oprah Winfrey opened an account on Twitter F...[Read on] |
On the anniversary of 9/11, what do you carry in your heart about this day?
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Julia Reed, Cynthia McFadden, Candice Bergen, Liz Smith, Joan Juliet Buck, Joan Ganz Cooney and Judith Martin recall what touched them — and what will never leave them from — that fateful day in 2001Question of the Day | Today 6:00 amJudith Ma...[Read on] |
Rooney Mara to Play With Fire as Lisbeth Salander
| Rooney Mara in 2009. Photo courtesy of PatrickMcMullan.com. If you are like me, or, for that matter, like just about every other free citizen with functioning eyeballs and a rough grasp of phonics, you have been eagerly awaiting the news of which young ac...[Read on] |
Dee Dee Myers: President Obama Cannot Afford to Get His Deficit Plan Wrong
| Obama in September 2010. Photograph by Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images.This afternoon, President Obama will lay out his plan for deficit reduction and entitlement reform. Finally. Substantively, the plan will likely borrow a number of important ...[Read on] |
Put Your Whole Heart into Volunteering
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So many love the feeling of that check or cross off the old’ daily to-do…it’s productive. It says we’re doing something. But that little mark doesn’t indicate how we completed the task.
Were we quick and sloppy? Were we distracted? Did we put e...[Read on] |
Is Sotomayor Supremely Stylish?
| Never let it be said that the monkeys who bang out these Open Bar columns don’t appreciate the priorities and interests of the audience here at Vanity Fair. Sure, some of you may be interested in reading about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s 1...[Read on] |
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