Tag: Social media
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Why trolling is a training problem.
Probably starting the conversation off with epithets isn’t going to get your audience’s attention. “Welcome to Excel Conditional Formatting, you so and sos.” Certainly saying, “You are ill-informed,” or words to that effect would clear out the class. Regardless of the chocolate biscuits virtual or otherwise. Perhaps saying I have something to contribute might be…
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Bullied into Silence aka the Bastard Problem
The phrase “being bullied into silence” has started occurring in the Same Sex Marriage debate, often emanating from the No camp. Here is my response… Only bullies complain about being bullied into silence because it’s the exact technique they use to bully others! As soon as they are questioned or confronted they say they are…
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Everyone Failed Social Media : Except Mark Colvin
I knew Mark Colvin (and his kidney!) purely through Twitter! And sad at his loss. I did read some of his interview transcripts: a gentle questioner able to get a better answer! But in the maelstrom that is Twitter, he came across as funny, intelligent, curious, never ever patronising, clever and subtle, a joy to…
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Learning Disagreement Skills
Go on, click the angry icon. Share the negative post or tweet.
Andrew Whalan
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The Last Selfie
The last moments are the scariest, he thought. As he had been told. Apparently you first bob like a cork. Then you are swamped. Then you stretch your arms out to push yourself out of the water. And giving up, your arms and legs climb upward. Then downward. Thus overloaded you sink to the bottom…
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Cory Bernardi and Freedom of Speech
Much has been made of the recent comments by Senator Cory Bernardi regarding his book the Conservative Revolution (see the reviews and Twitter). All I will say is that I disagree with him. Based on his expressed values I almost certainly won’t read his book. And like Bill Shorten I can give personal examples! It…
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I Wish I Was A Mummy Blogger
According to the normal media, the Internet is inhabited by mummy bloggers. As a male mummy blogger I find this a bit hard to take. I did style myself as a male mummy blogger during a mock debate over social media but was politely howled down. I learnt from that. I’m now a daddy blogger.…
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Why the MainStream Media is Dying…
Imagine you are a journalist in a small country town. You know everyone and they know you. Any unethical behaviour will in time be found out. Then you lose your contacts, advertisers, circulation and your newspaper’s reputation. Imagine you are a journalist in a city. You know no-one and no-one knows you. Any unethical behaviour…
Andrew Whalan
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Social Media Simplified
Imagine you’re invited to a party. You check the date, time and place. You get ready and turn up. You expect to be the centre of attention. But when you arrive, the party is happening and has been going forever. Everybody is talking at once. Everybody seems to know everyone else. People will stop talking,…
Andrew Whalan
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Being Strategic About Trolling
Recently I was trolled on Facebook. Someone left some rather unsavoury comments on a photo I posted. After some thought and some research, I deleted the post and blocked the person from Facebook. The personal effects on me are just that, private and personal. But it raises some questions for me and for anyone…
Andrew Whalan
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What is True Gallantry Anyway?
Lou Pardi’s experience of men patronising women but then being just so sweet and nice about it is summarised in the following blog (http://pardipardi.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/dilemma-unintentional-misogyny/). When I quickly read it, my summary was tweeted as “Men are still uncomfortable with successful women and cover it up with false gallantry”. My comments were retweeted by the writer and…
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Social Media is Old-Fashioned (Really!)
Before social media, there was the grapevine, bush telegraph or rumour mill. I found this out growing up in two small country towns. Basically, my parents knew everything about everyone. There were no secrets there, and now there seem to be none on the internet! Of course, this is the negative back-biting side of social…
Andrew Whalan
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