Stories about "Social media"
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Countdown! The Top 10 Bates Instagram posts for 2019
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:41 pm
If every picture tells a story, what are the stories that Bates tells about itself on Instagram?
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Imani Perry: What if digital activism, such as via Twitter, doesn’t really do anything?
Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:24 pm
Instead of Twitter cancellations and Facebook face-offs, we should focus on transformation, says Perry, a Princeton professor and noted public intellectual.
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Video: The student-run Instagram account taking Bates by storm
Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:44 pm
With skits like "The Most Interesting Cat in the World," the Men's Lacrosse Weather Instagram account has gone beyond its founding as a weather-update site.
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‘From Selma to Ferguson: 50 Years of Nonviolent Dissent’ is MLK Day theme
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:44 am
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2015, Bates College examine the great civil rights leader's commitment to nonviolent action — and places it in the context of recent events in Ferguson, Mo., Staten Island, N.Y., and on the international stage.
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Trade screen time for inner view, Belsky urges
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 7:55 pm
Present Tense: Being Here and Now in a Nonstop World encourages a break from the little screen and a re-engagement with the spiritual self.
CANCELED: Race in a Post-Human World lecture
Thursday, December 2, 2010 8:59 am
A talk scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, by author Lisa Nakamura has been canceled due to illness.
'Antisocial Media' opens 'Race in a Post-Human World' series
Monday, November 22, 2010 1:53 pm
As part of a Bates College series exploring the impacts of social and technological progress on concepts of race, author Lisa Nakamura offers a lecture at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, in Pettengill Hall's Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). Nakamura's lecture, titled Antisocial Media: Understanding Racism and Homophobia in a Digitally Connected World, will address social media's influence on concepts of race and homosexuality, and will touch on the recent suicide of Rutgers first-year Tyler Clementi.
Divine a nation's mood from its blogs? Danforth '01 explains how
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:26 pm
Chris Danforth '01, a University of Vermont mathematician who has devised a system for assessing widespread happiness from blogs, explains his work at Bates College at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in Pettengill Hall's Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).