Sentences with phrase «media as a phenomenon»

Social media as a phenomenon is not going away.

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Hoffman credits Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, for the term «extended intelligence,» or «treating intelligence as a network phenomenon and using A.I. to enhance, rather than replace, human intelligence.»
According to media reports, the phenomenon known as «Linsanity» goes beyond the basketball court.
The FOMO amplifier is the media continuing to sensationalize the phenomenon and serves as a constant reminder.
To judge from media coverage, one might think of the U.S. tech industry as a bi-coastal phenomenon.
The phenomenon of «cord cutting» — or, even worse, younger audiences who never sign up for cable in the first place — is growing, and large parts of the traditional media and entertainment market are being snapped up by streaming services such as Netflix (NFLX), and alternative sources like YouTube.
Amplify was formally unveiled last May as a way for Twitter, broadcasters and advertisers to capitalize on people's use of social media while they watch TV — a phenomenon called «second screen» viewing.
Despite legacy media's anxieties about cord - cutting, data suggest that the phenomenon isn't nearly as significant as cable providers make it out to be.
Millennials were also twice as likely than Baby Boomers to buy clothing for their pets, a phenomenon Richter chalks up to the prevalence of social media.
It's now clear to me that, while the belief persisted for many reasons (including the way faith is used as a political weapon), a major reason was that media, racists, and liberal elites alike tend to treat African American Christianity as a cultural, not a theological, phenomenon.
The media usually portray cocaine and crack use as a black ghetto phenomenon.
Much the same point is made by the authors of the new BJSM editorial and in Back in the Game, where Kutcher and Gerstner argue that suicide rates among former National Football League players, can be and have been affected by messaging in the media — a phenomenon called the «suicide contagion» — and note how, in its coverage of the suicide of players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, the media has consistently ignored all seven of the recommendations of the Centers of Disease Control on how to avoid spreading that contagion, including not presenting simplistic explanations for suicide, not engaging in repetitive, ongoing, or excessive reporting of suicide, and not sensationalizing suicide.
Earlier, the President joined his kinsmen in Daura, Katsina State to observe this year's Eid - el - Kabir in what his media aide, Shehu, described as a «phenomenon event.»
In the book, Philander addresses how our perception of El Niño and global warming — as well as other scientific phenomena — depends on politics, the media, and other nonscientific factors.
Accounts of this phenomenon, known as «coregasm» due to its association with core abdominal muscle exercises, have for some time been circulating in the media.
However it's very common for the media to label and treat Muslims as one entity, and a more recent social media phenomenon has been for muslims themselves to judge and call each other out for not being Muslim enough despite the well known facts that there are differences in the various school of thoughts.
The media has not quite caught onto the eSports phenomena and, as such, the players are much more approachable via social media.
For example, Anderson (2005) describes online dating as a «talk show phenomenon» (p. 521) and argues that media coverage of the topic is frequently negative.
Just as we did with our Sex Advice section, we will discuss a wide variety of subjects relating to dating advice, including: the pitfalls of dating an «instababe», social media usage during dating, the new «love bombing» phenomenon, the trials and tribulations of dating in college, and more!
It really picks up steam as Walter becomes a phenomenon for his idiosyncrasy, appearing on talk shows since people love to watch a personal train wreck (As much as we want to keep distance between the performance and the performer, it is almost impossible to watch these scenes without considering Gibson's numerous appearances in the media spotlight, and Gibson's portrayal is especially daring in light of themas Walter becomes a phenomenon for his idiosyncrasy, appearing on talk shows since people love to watch a personal train wreck (As much as we want to keep distance between the performance and the performer, it is almost impossible to watch these scenes without considering Gibson's numerous appearances in the media spotlight, and Gibson's portrayal is especially daring in light of themAs much as we want to keep distance between the performance and the performer, it is almost impossible to watch these scenes without considering Gibson's numerous appearances in the media spotlight, and Gibson's portrayal is especially daring in light of themas we want to keep distance between the performance and the performer, it is almost impossible to watch these scenes without considering Gibson's numerous appearances in the media spotlight, and Gibson's portrayal is especially daring in light of them).
J.J Abrams fielded some more questions from the media regarding Star Wars (while also promoting his upcoming Stephen King project entitled 11.22.63 and Cameron Crowe's Roadies), but as you would expect, the majority of the inquiries were about Star Wars: The Force Awakens and his knowledge of the cultural phenomenon's eighth installment.
Because opt - out is a grassroots phenomenon, communities varied in the extent of their participation, based in part on factors such as: 1) degree of parental involvement in the local schools, 2) whether the local PTA had an organized advocacy committee, 3) parental awareness of school - reform issues, and 4) access to the Internet and social media.
Hi Len, You referenced Kindle Worlds as one phenomenon that has come about since the release of «Spreadable Media» which we might need to take into account.
Despite the interest in media scepticism and dislike, there seems to be no book on the market discussing media resistance as a phenomenon in its own right.
Drawing on cases and examples from the US, Britain, Scandinavia and other countries, media resistance is discussed as a diverse phenomenon...
The authors of these provocative, ripe - for - discussion novels use incisive humor as a mode for addressing complex questions about the enormous impact social media and other online phenomena have on every aspect of our lives, offering unprecedented access to and connection with the world while also blurring the distinction between facts and lies, eroding privacy, undermining trust, and impacting livelihoods.
I wrote a long series of articles on using investment advice to inoculate people against using stock tips from the media, partially because as Jim Cramer became more of a media phenomenon, his recommendations became worse.
Adding to the problem is the phenomenon that so many people have become so indoctrinated by the media that «pit bulls» ARE dangerous dogs, and are THE MOST dangerous dogs that if they witness a dog attack or are the victim of one they will automatically assume the dog must be a «pit bull» and will report it as such - because any dog who attacks must necessarily be a «pit bull».
«In just five days of sell through Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the largest entertainment launch in history and a pop culture phenomenon,» said Robert Kotick, CEO, Activision Blizzard, Inc. «The title's success redefines entertainment as millions of consumers have chosen to play Modern Warfare 2 at unprecedented levels rather than engage in other forms of media
As all of the artists use lens - based media, they all capture physical phenomena that defy belief, or defy description.
The phenomenon known as Pop Art emerged amid the proliferation of media imagery and consumer goods in the 1950s and»60s.
Conner's REPORT is a thirteen - minute meditation on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy that also dissects the phenomenon of the news media as a means of processing the event.
Twenty different artistic approaches in the media of photography, sculpture and installation explore the phenomenon of the «second skin» as a means of insulation against nature or as a way of bringing oneself closer to it.
For contemporary audiovisual artists, the possibilities inspired by this phenomenon, known as synesthesia, have expanded with the advent of recent digital technologies that translate all electronic media, whether sounds or moving images, into the zeros and ones of computer bits.
In her film «Turbo Sculpture», for example, she interrogates the recent phenomenon of public sculpture in former Yugoslavia dedicated to non-national media celebrities, such as Bruce Lee, Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur.
Yoon continues to develop her compositions by merging elements as diverse as images that she's compiled from popular media with her own sketches and photographs of both natural and manmade phenomena.
The fourth section will be innovative, with a group exhibition curated by Natasha Ginwala: On riots and resistance, questioning the phenomena of riots that are very often condemned by the authorities and the media as a way to marginalize and stifle them.
It interrogates the phenomenon of public sculpture in the former Yugoslavia, the artist's country of birth, dedicated to non-national media celebrities, such as Bruce Lee, Bob Marley and Samantha Fox.
TPG uses mass media as a platform to combine seemingly contradictory phenomena: advertising and politics, history and future, and public and private.
Through a variety of reproductive media, understood as acts of translation, Buechler addresses a variety of concerns regarding our relationship with historic and contemporary communication systems, the dis / functionality of language, and loss as both an ephemeral and material phenomenon.
The pursuit to understand the interactions and interdependence between perceptible phenomena such as color, form, light, and scale equally spilled over into the content of the courses on color theory that Vasa taught in his capacity as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design and Media Arts.
In order to fulfil this aim, he set aside the convention of representing light, temperature or space in a sculpture or image, and instead used these phenomena as the actual raw material or media of his work.
Stands to reason that as the science progressed and seemingly showed more and more that it is a real phenomenon then the media can less and less try and show that it is not real even with the backing of the dissenters.
I can't believe I am saying this, as the media covergae of climate change is almost universally appalling BUT I think part of the problem is that we, as the scientific community allowed the message / meme to permeate that media that «warming» was purely an atmospheric temperature phenomena to be assessed solely by average global temperatures.
On lower rates of warming in the last 15 years, there was broad agreement on the underlying science as well as on the importance of addressing the phenomenon in the SPM, given the media attention to this issue.
While many in the media portrayed the phenomenon as a desperate weapon used by sceptics to undermine climate science, real scientists took notice and began to study the warming pause.
The talk presents the works of the Arctic Design Group that foregrounds design in the act of framing and re-imagining the potential futures of the Arctic, while offering ways of re-engaging with environmental phenomena as malleable design media.
* 2016 April snow in PA, USA in april, media refers to phenomenon as «snow - showers».
A failure as a politician, he has found much consolation in the unmerited attention he receives from parts of the media, where he repeats ad nauseam his fantasies of a world that is cooling and icecaps that are thickening: explicit denial of observable phenomena.
We will learn some things about the CO2 greenhouse effect you have probably never heard in the media, such as the fact that warming from CO2 is actually a diminishing return phenomenon whose effect is asymptotic or essentially capped, making it hard to understand the prevalence of wild, open - ended temperature runaway scenarios.
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