Tag: Social Media
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Me Too founder Tarana Burke: Movement is not over
By Imran Rahman-Jones and Gurvinder Gill Me Too founder Tarana Burke says Harvey Weinstein being jailed this year was “astonishing” but far from the end of the movement. Tarana began using the phrase “Me Too” in 2006 to raise awareness of women who had been abused. Eleven years later, it found global recognition after a viral…
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BDE: What is big dick energy and who really has it?
Welcome to the internet in 2018 – which has already given us people eating laundry detergent, a man asking if a butterfly was a pigeon and an audio version of #TheDress (it said “yanny”, by the way). It’s now given rise to the newest and weirdest and most important question so far: Who has “big dick energy”? By the way, physical endowment has…
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World Cup 2018: How will social media affect the England squad?
By Imran Rahman-Jones and Ben Mundy “You’re detached from the outside world. You’re out of your comfort zone. You’ve got to occupy yourself.” That’s how Rio Ferdinand describes the England camp at a World Cup. It presents a challenge to the squad – how do they stay focused and motivated for a month without any…
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Oasis and Kasabian album covers used to attract fans to non-league Leek Town FC
Non-league team struggling to get people in for matches? Here’s one way you can attract more fans.
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Social media and censorship in China: how is it different to the West?
China has disrupted WhatsApp in a censorship drive ahead of the government’s Communist Party meeting next month. Other social media platforms, which people in the West use every day, are also banned in mainland China. Instead they’re replaced by other ones which the government can monitor. So what social media platforms are Chinese people able to use?…
Imran Rahman-Jones
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Trump pulls US out of Paris climate deal, the internet reacts
Donald Trump says he intends to take the US out of the Paris climate agreement and not everyone is pleased. Here’s how the internet reacted. Click here to read the full story on BBC Newsbeat.
Imran Rahman-Jones