Stories about "Social media"
Countdown! The Top 10 Bates Instagram posts for 2019
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:41 pm
If every picture tells a story, what are the stories that Bates tells about itself on Instagram?
Imani Perry: What if digital activism, such as via Twitter, doesn’t really do anything?
Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:24 pm
Instead of Twitter cancellations and Facebook face-offs, we should focus on transformation, says Perry, a Princeton professor and noted public intellectual.
Video: The student-run Instagram account taking Bates by storm
Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:44 pm
With skits like "The Most Interesting Cat in the World," the Men's Lacrosse Weather Instagram account has gone beyond its founding as a weather-update site.
‘From Selma to Ferguson: 50 Years of Nonviolent Dissent’ is MLK Day theme
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:44 am
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2015, Bates College examine the great civil rights leader's commitment to nonviolent action — and places it in the context of recent events in Ferguson, Mo., Staten Island, N.Y., and on the international stage.
Trade screen time for inner view, Belsky urges
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 7:55 pm
Present Tense: Being Here and Now in a Nonstop World encourages a break from the little screen and a re-engagement with the spiritual self.
CANCELED: Race in a Post-Human World lecture
Thursday, December 2, 2010 8:59 am
A talk scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, by author Lisa Nakamura has been canceled due to illness.
'Antisocial Media' opens 'Race in a Post-Human World' series
Monday, November 22, 2010 1:53 pm
As part of a Bates College series exploring the impacts of social and technological progress on concepts of race, author Lisa Nakamura offers a lecture at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, in Pettengill Hall's Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). Nakamura's lecture, titled Antisocial Media: Understanding Racism and Homophobia in a Digitally Connected World, will address social media's influence on concepts of race and homosexuality, and will touch on the recent suicide of Rutgers first-year Tyler Clementi.
Divine a nation's mood from its blogs? Danforth '01 explains how
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:26 pm
Chris Danforth '01, a University of Vermont mathematician who has devised a system for assessing widespread happiness from blogs, explains his work at Bates College at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in Pettengill Hall's Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).