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Female Journalists in Mens Locker Rooms: Let's be professional
Submitted by Rae on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 12:28
At the beginning of the NFL season, Ines Sainz, a female sports journalist was in the NY Jets locker room waiting to do an interview. She tweeted about being embarrassed and later admitted to feeling uncomfortable as players sent catcalls her way. So the Association for Women in Sports Media stepped in, an NFL investigation ensued, and the Jets’ owner, Woody Johnson apologized. So what are the issues raised here? What’s all the big hoopla about?
Is this acceptable behavior towards any journalist, let alone a female?
Facebook's New Features: Helpful or Creepy?
Submitted by Hillary on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 12:30
Facebook’s wall-to-wall feature, which allowed a Facebook user to see conversations between two friends, has now been replaced with a clickable link that reads “see friendship.” Clicking on this link enables you to not only view a conversation between two people (wall posts as well as picture, link and note comments), but a person can also see every picture the two are tagged in, mutual as well as common friendships, groups and pages they both like and even events they have attended together.
My only question to Facebook- why?
Don't Hide Behind Your Computer Screen
Submitted by Angela on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:27
As a student in the communications industry, I’ve been dabbling in social media for a few years now. It seems to be all the rage. At every conference and workshop I go to, there’s always at least one mention of social media.
Although I fall into the category of “digital native,” I have to admit I wasn’t the first to jump aboard the social media express. I couldn’t even begin to comprehend why anyone would care about my answer to the question, “What are you doing?” and the first time I logged on to LinkedIn I was quite intimidated.
Blind Liberalism versus Bullying Conservatism
Submitted by Renee on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 12:30
As a last semester senior at an all women’s school, I feel that I could have written the book on liberal ideals. A product of my environment and life choices, growing up first in Providence, RI and then moving to Boston, has made a liberal (at least socially) bird out of me. But moving to an overwhelmingly liberal area, at least within my age demographic, has taught me one thing – and that is just because something is liberal does not mean it is good, and just because something is conservative does not mean it is bad. What is bad is blind belief.
The Paradigm of Catholic School
Submitted by Renee on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 12:28
People think it is weird that I went to a Catholic school. Either I spent most of my time being a raucous cock tease or I am a nun in training. Many people leave a Catholic high school education never wanting to go to church or even hear the word Jesus again. Surprisingly, although for sometimes counter-intuitive reasons, this was not my experience. Catholic school taught me God was okay, and here's why...
