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...company is marketing its new late-night program directly to young people, using Facebook, Twitter and other social-media channels to spread the word. Denny's is well aware that it needs to get younger. After all, the company is over half a century old, and famous for attracting the senior set for 10 a.m. powwows over coffee. Saturday Night Live recently skewered the chain's reputation with this doozy from "Weekend Update" comedian Seth Meyers: "The director of Iowa's Department of Aging said he will not use the abbreviation DOA, since it is also code for 'Dead...
...phone-wielding viewers across the globe. Even without the prompting of CNN’s iReporter, the public today feels a need to expose every tabloid-worthy corner of our private existence. We blog, we post our entire lives on Facebook or Myspace, we whine about personal problems on Twitter, and we can forward a personal email to anyone we want in a second. We are our own paparazzi, and we have trampled the entire concept of privacy. We don’t only willingly reveal ourselves, but we have also come to expect it and desire it of others.This...
...needs tabloids when there’s Twitter? Posting a shocking 1,382 percent increase in visitors year-over-year since February 2008, Twitter is the latest phenomenon in the recent surge of social interaction applications that have transformed the very idea of communication. A steady stream of constantly updated, readily available information has accompanied the emergence of an increasingly exhibitionist public. Moving beyond the sphere of interpersonal relations, this trend has crept into the artistic realm, raising questions about the status of art and its exhibition in society.Once predominantly a static creation relegated to the gallery or stage...
...Moldova Election Triggers Protests Allegations of vote-rigging in the Communist Party's April 5 parliamentary election victory spurred more than 10,000 people to mass in Chisinau, the capital of Europe's poorest country. Coordinating via Twitter and text messages, protesters stormed government buildings and clashed with police. Nearly 200 were arrested. President Vladimir Voronin accused Romania of conspiring to foment unrest--a charge Bucharest denied...
...Increasingly, talking is something people do when other things are going on. Our generation doesn’t converse—we comment. We hand down our authoritative pronouncements through means of communication that don’t require us to defend our positions. No one has debates on Twitter. YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed—and better spelled—via a simple thumbs-up or down. Face-to-face conversation, too, has slipped more and more into commentary. People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other...