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Rise of the debate memes

Have you seen the memes from the latest presidential debate? Even though the debate just aired last night, the Twitterverse and other social media networks have already been busily circulating memes from the candidate’s comments. So far the most popular …

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Welcome to the panopticon

Have you heard about the “dog shaming” meme? It’s a trend where people post pictures of their pet dogs next to signs identifying their crimes on the Internet. For example: perhaps your pooch hasn’t been properly housebroken and has bathroom …

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Looking at lessons from debates past to provide clues for future debates

As I write this post, the presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney has not yet occurred. There has been much anticipation for tonight’s debate in Denver. Some of my friends have even planned debate-watching parties (definitely does not …

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Negotiating with new media: the “Facebook hostage-taker,” police, and the press

One of the trends in news reporting that has developed as a result of media convergence is the increased use of social media services to provide information for news stories. Some of the earliest reports of the movie theater massacre …

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Convergence in the Canadian press

The Canadian press has often impressed me with their analyses of issues that the American electorate either didn’t know about or didn’t know enough about to care. The Canadian press has yet to let me down on this front, as …

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An Apple story a day keeps real news away

Some time ago the staff at the Central Florida Future published a political cartoon on their opinion page that has stayed in my memory. It depicted a journalist (identified by their suit, “PRESS” badge, and reporter’s notebook in hand) holding …

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Patenting the palm: When techology and users converge

In a recent op-ed for CNN.com, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff compared Apple Inc.’s legal victory over Samsung to the early development of human speech. Imagine, Rushkoff writes, that in the early days of human language someone invented a word to …

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