GlobalShift

Modern journalism is changing, and this has wide effects on democracy, human rights, and the constitution — and yes this is being reported in a blog.

On Friday morning, Sarah Killen was a normal small town girl. She had a Twitter account, Lovely Button, and she had three followers. She was taking classes online for a local high school, getting ready to marry her fiancé, and trying to raise money for her upcoming walk in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk [...]

Imagine being called into the high school assistant principal’s office on an ordinary school day, where you’re chastised for using illegal drugs. You’ve never done drugs before, but when you ask why you’re being accused, you’re shown a webcam photo of you eating Mike and Ikes at home. Maybe they confused the Mike and Ikes [...]

Imagine if Fran Drescher had auditioned for Avatar. It’s a good laugh for a great cause.
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I guess it was about 1998 when the annoying trend began of naming stadiums after corporations. Trading in names like Candlestick Park in San Francisco for 3-Com Park, corporations managed to suck the mystique and poetry out of our proper nouns. The added bonus being that one feels mighty toolish having to say the name of the corporation every time they go to an event.

When Southwest Airlines made the decision to keep director Kevin Smith from boarding his flight due to their “persons of size” policy, they had no idea the man renowned for playing Silent Bob would do anything but keep mum.

Facebook is far from a private forum for personal opinions. Status updates, photos, groups and notes can reveal intimate details of a person’s life, from relationship troubles or parties they’ve been to, to complaints about school or work. It’s no secret that employers frequent Facebook profiles to check out potential employees, but not many people [...]

The 2010 Winter Olympics had a rough start following the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, the footage of which was broadcast for nearly two days straight. What can the world of sports journalism learn from the deaths of Kumaritashvili and of wrestler Owen Hart?

Brave New Films has recently released its 5th Anniversary Activist Collection, a DVD box set spanning 2004 – 2009. Containing a whopping 40 hours of material (something that shocked me – I was expecting closer to 8 or 10), the box set offers a compilation of short and long films, conversations with distinguished guests like [...]

Ever since the release of the Kindle and now the Ipad there has been a lot of talk amongst nerds about the future of the book. Not only do I count myself amongst the nerd, book loving masses, I’m also a semi-neo-Luddite who is slightly suspicious of all this new fancy-pants gadgetry that’s about to potentially kill my beloved books.