Tag: Twitter

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Are We Unintentionally Appropriating Black Culture? A Difficult but Important Question to Reflect on

July 28, 2015

It’s funny how we can fool ourselves into believing we are doing everything we can only to have our eyes opened—sometimes painfully—by something seemingly minor. I have always prided myself on not being racist. While just like everyone else, I make flash judgments based on experience, I am also very aware of this pattern of… Read More Are We Unintentionally Appropriating Black Culture? A Difficult but Important Question to Reflect on

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From eConsultancy: ‘#IranElection and #CNNFail: lacking #context’

June 15, 2009

This is a great article that refers to some of the issues I raised in an earlier post about Twitter’s strengths and weaknesses, albeit in a less eloquent way. Perhaps this is why this is Sahar’s Blog, and not Sahar’s Consulting Service! In times such as these, when emotions justifiably run quite high, it’s important… Read More From eConsultancy: ‘#IranElection and #CNNFail: lacking #context’

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Tweeters wonder: what else can we do, other than to hash tweets as #iranelection and wear green?

June 15, 2009

It’s a great beginning: people all over the world are sharing news and raising awareness about what is going on in Iran. After all, the movement of information is vital to any cause. But how can we solve the problem once and for all? How can we make sure that these things stop forever? Well,… Read More Tweeters wonder: what else can we do, other than to hash tweets as #iranelection and wear green?

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IHT: ‘When stars Twitter, a ghost may be lurking’

March 28, 2009

Here is another reason why celebrities shouldn’t be role models: they are often the result of careful marketing strategies. What we think as coming from celebrities, i.e. what some people consider as the standards towards which they strive, are actually coming from a team of people manipulating that stars image. And, however obvious this argument… Read More IHT: ‘When stars Twitter, a ghost may be lurking’