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Jeff Jarvis, an early champion of vlogging and founder of BuzzMachine.com a blog that deals with politics and the media, sees great potential in the phenomenon. "Vlogs are a weird, new kind of way that people can document their lives," says Jarvis. "It has the potential to be the farm team for new talent used by big, mainstream media. Suddenly anybody can become an Andy Rooney." Or better yet, an Edward R. Murrow...
Although I noticed this linguistic phenomenon early in my Harvard career, it didn’t bother me very much. After all, the young men of our acquaintance weren’t “men”; they were “guys.” Weren’t “guys” and “girls” roughly equivalent in their slangy informality? And wasn’t calling ourselves “girls” and “guys” rather than “men?...
Juxtaposition: A hallmark of modern art, postmodern literature and the Simpsons, the juxtaposition of unrelated or contradictory elements can be very effective in producing humor or horror. Cable TV is rich with both, thanks to the now-inescapable phenomenon of crowding the screen with as many visual artifacts and moving pieces of text as possible. Resulting juxtapositions have included a split-screen on CNN with a live broadcast of Cheney praising America’s operation in Iraq in a prepared speech while, a thousand miles away and a few inches over on the screen, the aftermath of a massive...
...body. Rather, says Jack Miles, author of Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, it dates back to the 18th century, when "Americans tended not to linger on the agony of Jesus. It was more 'friend of my soul, he walks with me and talks with me.'" That phenomenon, which has only accelerated, afflicts conservative Christianity as much as those in mainline churches, says American Jesus author Prothero. "If you asked Evangelicals in a Gallup poll if they had given up on the hard theology, they would say no. But in terms of day-to-day experience, atonement...
...Matter If You’re Black or White.” It’s also unusual that teens today wear Nirvana T-shirts and listen to Nirvana CDs as if the band were still alive and kicking. You don’t exactly see the same phenomenon with Stone Temple Pilots...