Mooch and Other Dramas: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup
Scaramucci's showboating and belligerence culminated in his going postal on Wednesday night. And that was only a fraction of the drama this week.
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Feeling Alt-Right: Hate and Shame In Online Right-Wing Imagery
How meme-makers use *humor* to exploit the grey-zone in social media guidelines meant to distinguish hate speech from legitimate political expression.
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Portrait Week: Our Social Media Roundup
From DC to Antarctica, Russia-gate to Iraq, it was a week for political portraits.
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On that Creepy Don Jr. Elevator Photo
The photo can be seen as a premonition. It mirrors the surreptitiousness of the Russia meeting and the fact Don Jr. isn't so swaggery anymore.
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Putin, G20 & Other Bodies: Our Social Media Roundup
Our roundup this week is all about posturing. Trump-Putin scored the most attention, but physical acts were striking everywhere we looked.
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Timely Paintings: World Leaders as Refugees
I'm fully on board with the focus on power -- especially star power.
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Importance of Seeing the Trauma: The Video of Diamond Reynolds and Daughter in Back of a Police Car
Analyzing the video of Diamond Reynolds and her daughter detained in the back of a police car after an officer shot and killed her boyfriend, Philando Castile.
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Health and Care: Our Social Media Roundup of the Week
Our roundup this week focuses on the healthcare fight and the treatment of women, and how the two issues ended up intertwined.
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On the Failed Rubio – Ivanka Bot Hug
Given her meticulously-constructed public image and the way she is constantly composed, Ivanka just doesn't have awkward moments.
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Judgement Daze: Our Social Media Weekly Roundup
The major stories this week seemed to all involve critical votes or verdicts. Most came out badly for the most vulnerable.
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The Mind of Skinheads: What the Racist is Expected to Look Like
The photos suggest that racism can be depicted by signs of gender, sexuality, and class, and if people don’t live or look like that, they must not be.
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The Cosby Verdict and the Face of the Policewoman on the Courthouse Steps
Beyond the subordination of women, the screenshots testify that that these are days beyond words.
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Black Diamond: Our Best Social Media of the Week
This week, domestic terror took center stage.
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Comey as Metaphor: Our Social Media Roundup of the Week
Looking at the most striking pictures from the last five days, greater light and clarity seems to be the theme.
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On that Viral Tornado Photo–a Sign of the Times
Public imagination takes hold of a photo for its own reasons, the force of interest also reflecting something of the times.
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London and a Fake Suicide Vest
The biggest threat of this attack was the potential to create outsized effects on the cheap. A fake vest or a real one is part of sorting the difference.
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Climate Carnage: Our Social Media Roundup of the Week
Yes, this pic from Trump's climate announcement was all the buzz--about small mindedness, among other things.
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