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Tag: Media Influence

Culture

Culture Clips: A Good Year for the Bad Guys

We’re three whole days into 2018 now, but it’s still wholly appropriate to look back at the year that was. Researchers have weighed the data

Culture

The Invasion of the Christmas Carols

Many of us mark our seasons by firsts: the first robin of spring, the first sunburn of summer, the first interception by our terrible quarterback

Movies

Watching Our Language

As I mentioned yesterday, Boo 2! A Madea Halloween was the No. 1 movie in the country this weekend. Its “family friendly” PG-13 rating certainly

Culture

Culture Clips: Distracted to Death?

Today’s vehicles are packed with more safety and collision-avoidance technology than ever before. But traffic-related deaths in the United States have nevertheless risen sharply over

Culture

Taking the Red Pill

An interesting new viral movement has been gathering momentum lately: A lot of young people are proudly reporting via YouTube and other sites that they’ve

Tech

The iGen Techy Blues

They don’t call them the iGeneration for nothing. Today’s young people, those born between 1995 and 2012, are most often referred to as “Generation Z.”

Culture

Culture Clips: Emmys Put on a Red Shawl

Back in the day, television was considered something of a cultural unifier—the very definition of mass entertainment that would serve as a focal point for

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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