Sentences with phrase «obsession with social»

Desktops, Laptops, Smart phones, tablets, smart watches and our obsession with social media is keeping us in a constant and continual state of connectivity.
Her in - depth knowledge of working with the media combined with her obsession with social media makes her perfectly qualified for helping people raise their profiles through media relations and social media.
Our new guidelines underscore TechCrunch's pathological obsession with social platforms, but also call for our reporters to proceed with the utmost caution, expressing none of their rampant pre-existi
Don't let the bad guys take advantage of our obsession with social media and our love for random rich people we've never met.
I wonder if obsession with social media and blogs might be distorting our personalities.
Among them is aaajiao, whose video installation draws on society's obsession with social media and the culture of constant approval, conditions anticipated in Ballard's writing.
I singed up for all of these and then, if I'm being completely honest, I forgot all about Marriott's obsession with social media....
Perhaps we can all agree that the obsession with social mobility comes from our innately American caste and class fears, part of the national DNA passed down from our hugely idealistic founding documents and Washington, who refused the aristocratic mantle.
Oh, look, some Hollywood elitists want to wag a finger in our general direction and lament how our obsession with social media connections keep us from making real ones.
Our obsession with social media is ripe for mocking and even merciless comedy, but Spicer and Smith reach for only the lowest hanging fruit, tossing out straightforward gags about superlative - slinging millennials with their hashtags, selfie - taking, and avocado toast.
The pitfalls of living your life online are at the heart of Ingrid Goes West, where one woman's obsession with social media and its impacts every aspect of her life.
The saintly image derives from his ethereal achievements, certainly (his description of time and space literally displaced the old scientific concept of ether), but also from his modesty, his obsession with social justice, and his penchant for treating everyone the same, whether janitor or king.
This is especially the case with our current obsession with social media: if it's out there, it must be true.
Luckily, Ian Cleary was on hand at Social Media Marketing World to share the product of his obsession with social media tools.
There's little doubt that our own obsession with social media, blogging, personal branding, and user - generated content has done more to propagate the insidious myth that others have it better than you than anything else.

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The culprit behind this enormous shift is our increasingly selfish, self - centered, self - absorbed «Me» culture, courtesy of our growing obsession with personal branding, blogging, and social media.
THE shift away from the Valley's obsession with dot - com services and Web - based social networks is a return to the region's roots.
They are only possible in a society like ours, with its ubiquitous broadband and constant access to (and obsession with) social media.
Gandhi's ethical vision of democracy seems more persuasive as the social costs of the obsession with economic growth become intolerable.
At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.
In our obsession with finding the definitive social solution we can easily end up trivializing the biblical response to our quest, that is, if we scour the texts for a specific social program.
Best Headline: Bruce Reyes Chow with «10 Things This Liberal, Social Justice Christian, Progressive Democrat Has in Common with Conservative, Evangelical Christian, Tea Party Republicans» ``... At the core of our discourse should not be an obsession with winning the future, but our common yearning to discover where God is leading us.
It's what author and social scientist Bella DePaulo calls matrimania, the obsession we have with being a couple and marriage as the be all and end all, and singlism, the stereotyping, stigmatizing and discrimination against singles.
Michelle has a great tip for dads with newborns — turn that obsession to your advantage, and drop the social etiquette.
Besides our capacity for abstract thought, our mastery of fire, and our obsession with reality television, the simple fact of being bipedal has had drastic effects in our ongoing biological and social evolution.
From sleepless nights to social isolation and an obsession with diapers, there are many ways a newborn can shake your existence to the core.
The new Center for Humane Technology aims to lead the fight against society's obsession with the Web, apps and social media — but it may just add to the confusion
One afternoon, to explain why social psychology became so obsessed with human errors and why that obsession may itself be in error, Krueger began pulling books off his shelves, offering a trip through the history of this science.
The 30 - year - old planetary scientist has many passions, from the social commentary of Dostoyevsky to the lyrics of Metallica, but none measure up to her obsession with alien life.
(And here, you could have sworn that you wanted a guy who could match your passion for social justice and obsession with
(And here, you could have sworn that you wanted a guy who could match your passion for social justice and obsession with Game of Thrones.
I blog about everything from my love of clothes and handbags and Tory Burch shoes to my Starbucks addiction, working out, my obsession with Reality TV, All things Social Media, my family, friends and boyfriend C and of course Makeup.
Two years ago, The Cut wrote of how Game of Thrones «Daenerys Targaryen was the mother of not only dragons, but also fashion's renewed obsession with the type of tops «social mores demand that you hang up... once you stop taking Jägerbombs and start contributing to a 401K.»
I'm Amanda, a Kansas City Lifestyle Blogger, mom of two little people, social media addict, travel junkie with a slight obsession to baking and fitness.
Y ’ all, have you seen my obsession with «The Good Wife» on Social Media?
Rampling's character, known only as Matron, gives a speech to the class about how the West is weak, tearing itself apart with racial divisions and social media obsessions, and how it's Russia's time to step in and assert itself as the ultimate world power.
Hitchcock is in every frame of this film, literally — mailing a letter that was to have been the way that murderous Johnnie receives his post-film comeuppance — and thematically through his obsessions with eyeglasses as the source of knowledge and power, trains as the suggestion of sex and sophistication, perilous perches as the places where seismic changes occur, and morbid dinner conversations as subversions of the social strata.
It's not exactly subtle social commentary, but it most definitely has something to do with our cultural obsession with pretty much anything related to cats.
Their obsession with looks and social status say much about the rest of the film's focus on adults trying to come to terms with their position in life.
Their aberrant behavior, it appears, is fueled by a near - lethal cocktail of hyper - materialism, rampant narcissism, obsession with celebrity (real and fake), hollow spirituality and social media, not to mention actual booze and drugs.
Tragedy Girls (review): A hilarious and fiercely entertaining slasher the blends an old school slasher mentality with today's social media obsession.
For the second year running, the Cannes Palme d'Or victor proved more than worthy of the title, as Cantet bounced back from the curious diversion of «Heading South» to make a boundary - defying social document, impossibly rich in its scope, compassion and obsession with the limitless possibilities of language and conversation.
Hand wringing over Americans» obsession with sports at the expense of academics is a hardy perennial in education writing, social commentary, and even sketch comedy.
Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner said: «The continued obsession with grammar schools will do nothing for the vast majority of children, and it is absurd for ministers to push ahead with plans to expand them when the evidence is clear that they do nothing to improve social mobility.»
This obsession with grammar schools as organs of social mobility is naïve and shows a lack of understanding of the nature of poverty.
That was it for me; intrigue became fascination became obsession with the incredible ancient social order that is the hive, and the extraordinary process of making the unique substance that is honey.
Helen's success as compared to White's initial struggles with Gos led me to wonder about the nature of an obsession - how much is environmental, how much does social stigma or how much is found in our own nature seeking for acceptance, love and fulfillment.
Her latest novel, #PleaseRetweet (HarperCollinsUK, 2015), teases society's obsession with celebrity and social media.
One of the huge issues with social media is the obsession with notifications.
Last year, Ubisoft announced Watch Dogs, a game with heavy themes of the 21st century's obsession with our smart phones, our social network egos, and our need for the Internet.
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