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Scoffed at the HeForShe Campaign? Right, Let’s Talk
If you haven’t seen it already, the next thing you should do today is watch the entirety of Emma Watson’s UN HeForShe speech. There has been a lot of news articles quoting it, but some of the most interesting parts weren’t cherry-picked as far as I remember, and watching and listening coveys her emotions a Continue reading
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Explaining the Internet Slowdown (and protesting so you might not be able to read it)
It’s not that often that a lot of the people who use the Internet agree on something, but it looks like the US government has given us all a common enemy (again. Didn’t this happen with SOPA and Prop 8?!). I don’t have a huge understanding of the technical aspects of it, but essentially the Continue reading
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The Six O’Clock News: Quickfire Commentary
Audioblog time! I decided to commentate on each of these stories (don’t worry there are things to look at while you listen): Too bad I talked about things in the wrong order and forgot how to talk and read simultaneously. Story One, in which we should perhaps panic. Story Two, in which I haven’t heard of Continue reading
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The Six O’Clock News: What It Takes to Re-Focus the Media (sort of)
Let’s address the obvious first and foremost and take a moment to appreciate what journalists are doing in certain parts of the world at the moment. While the tabloids are going crazy over Cara Delevigne’s holiday with Selena Gomez, there are people from across the globe who are quite literally the front line of communications Continue reading
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