Sentences with phrase «what social phenomena»

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To be fair, Twitter's founders didn't set out to build the next Facebook: Consumers turned it into a social phenomenon and kept signing on to see what it was about.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

Perhaps more fundamental in this difficult and troublesome phenomenon — social change and a rapidly shifting scene — is not the social change itself but social change for what?

The alleged third Quest, while no more uniform than its predecessors, rejects Bultmann's double verdict about Quests, and is determined to know as precisely as possible what Jesus did and did not say, and to understand the critically certified Jesus as a historical phenomenon in the social landscape of his time.

The one approach says merely that social interaction with like - minded believers is an important phenomenon and that we should know more about how often, with whom, and in what settings this sort of social interaction takes place.

Look at what the «Sakawa» phenomenon has done to some of our kids, use of illicit drugs and other social crimes.

What better time to attempt a new record for this new social phenomenon?»

It's what you might call it a global social media phenomenon in that kind of publicity brings with it a lot of interested users.

Moynihan was convinced that what he was witnessing was fundamentally a phenomenon of the black community, and so could be explained by the tragic history of African Americans, which rendered black families uniquely vulnerable to the kind of social and economic pressures many faced in poor urban environments.

Before the Super Bowl this past weekend I went to the NFL's Twitter page to see what a media phenomenon like «the big game» was having on the social media site.

In his opening keynote, the renowned specialist for media entertainment familiarized attendees with a highly valuable three - level model designed to help not only industry actors but also marketers and practitioners understand what makes playing digital games such an enjoyable activity and how this experience contributes to making interactive entertainment the social phenomenon it is today.

Also in here - Yahoo! Games on the WiiWare phenomenon, Nabeel Hyatt on what makes gaming social, and the inevitable and wonderful return of Mega64 star Marcus, berating The Behemoth's Paladin (pictured!)

Moscow performance artist Elena Kovylina exhibits a video work that examines post-Cold War Russia and its similarities to a post-colonial state; UK photographer Ellen Nolan asks what we mean by personal «identity» within a social system; and conceptual artist Flavia Muller Medeiros looks at the contemporary phenomenon of cross-cultural migration between Eastern and Western Europe.

It is a visual survey that examines the social phenomena surrounding what the artists call «forced nomads.»

As I stressed, what social scientists call «cultural cognition» is only one factor shaping perceptions of phenomena revealed by science.

But perhaps what I should have said was «reliably accurate long term predictions of chaotic phenomena like weather, politics, or social change».

«Climate change» begins to explain social phenomena; it measures the «ethics» of our behaviour; it determines what form of social organisation is best, and how people should relate...