I remember when all BBC would talk about was the different facits of the GameStop/Reddit vs. Wall Street debocal. I really appreciated the simplistic overview of short selling and how lucrative it is for so many hedge fund managers.
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I'm curious what factor is present for pro-republican TikTok users to engage twice as much as pro-democrat TikTok users.
Response to Article: Medina Serrano, Papakyriakopoulos, et al. 2020 - Dancing to the Partisan BeatDatei
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"It is this system of affording more or less privileges to ethnic groups, including White Americans as the penultimate beneficiaries of power and privilege..." Please check out, The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by The Cut.
https://t.co/bZkjytsiCC
(2/2) However, code-switching between linguistic styles based on the recipient's skin tone is a typical self-defense practice in the US.
https://t.co/48Qtdb0Z3x
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(1/2) The instance of Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) utilizing code-switching was unsurprising to hear! In a linguistic sense, it's multilinguals that use elements of learned languages. https://t.co/48Qtdb0Z3x
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This connection was exciting to find as it helped me understand the personalization of "mass media". "Furthermore, the increase in digitalization and decrease in the costs of communication have led to the exponential growth of user innovation platforms." #digimediapublics
"...Successful platforms such as Google, FB, r genuinely appreciated by their users who accept the offer 2 comm. within the commercial environment..." Reminds me of Mahr&Lievens article 'Virtual lead user communities: Drivers of knowledge creation for Innov.' #digimediapublics
I wish I had more to contribute to today's class topic. However, I would have liked to see the reading be less 'US-centric.' I'd prefer to understand the concepts from a more global perspective.
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