“The video clip ‘Guitar’ was first posted on YouTube in April 2007. It features a man, Peter Nalitch, singing a song with some basic lyrics – in a tastily ‘corrupted’ form of English – while dancing in and around an old Kopeika car (a legendary Soviet analogue of the people’s car: the Lada 12004) and […]
Tag: media
Social Media + BS
“What does the future hold for social media and bullshit?” asks professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Univ. Oxford, UK) in a new communication published in the journal Social Media + Society (“An online, open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal deeply committed to advancing the understanding of social media and its impact on societies past, present and future.”) The […]
For Sex Researchers: How to Get the Attention You Want
A bunch of people who do research on how people have sex came together to advise themselves and other people about how to get the kind of attention they want from people in the media. It’s all about the people. Here’s their report: “Turning Sexual Science Into News: Sex Research and the Media,” Kimberly R. […]
Televised warning about TV and death
Does watching a televised media briefing about a study that asks “Is sitting in front of the TV shortening your life?” shorten your life? Watch a televised media briefing by the Australian Science Media Centre, and maybe you’ll find out. Their press release says: MEDIA BRIEFING: TV time may cut life short Is sitting in […]