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Tag Archives: Archives in the News
Selfies and The Craze of Self-Photography
A few weeks ago, General Colin L. Powell created an overnight Internet sensation by posting an image of himself, taken in the 1950s. The image, capturing the young and dapper Powell in black-and-white, was a direct response to the “selfie” taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the 2014 Oscars. General Powell boldly proclaimed that he “was…
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Tagged Archives in the News, Barack Obama, Cell Phones, Colin Powell, Ellen DeGeneres, Popular Culture, Selfies, Social Media, syndicated, Technology
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Facebook as a Multimodal Diary for Future Biographers
Recently, Facebook celebrated 10 years online by creating the “A Look Back” feature. This specialized web page pulls images, posts, status updates, relationship changes, and a number of other data types from your public profile, and compiles them into a cute video, all with a catchy tune and cued transitions. Anyone can access and their…
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Tagged Archives in the News, Changing Technologies, Facebook, Media Type | Audio-Visual, Popular Culture, Social Media, Storify, syndicated
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Airing of (Profession-Related) Grievances during #librarianfestivus [Part 2]
As the second part in a two-part series on the #librarianfestivus debate, this post analyzes the “effectiveness” of the Airing of Grievances during the Festivus holiday. The first part of this series, on the comments shared during the debate itself, is found here. As discussed in last week’s post, the Festivus holiday season gave way…
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Airing of (Profession-Related) Grievances during #librarianfestivus [Part 1]
As the first part in a two-part series on the #librarianfestivus debate, this post analyzes many of the views shared during the Festivus holiday celebration of the Airing of Grievances. In the second part of this installment, commentary on the event itself will be discussed, as well as any new developments on the subject. Stay…
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Tagged Archives in the News, Education, Popular Culture, Social Media, syndicated, Theory and Practice
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