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Journalist. I enjoy writing thinky features about technology ethics, virtual communities and author profiles/Q&As. Instructor of computer mediated communication, social media, web design/development and journalism. nianorris.com
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I love my local indie bookstore!

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Does interrupting people and talking down to them actually command respect?

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Not me rocking this @molly.wiki shirt every time it's clean

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My latest cohort of web development students wants to write code designed to deliberately piss off the user

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"skiing"

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PRs: Please don't manipulate your email subjects to make us think we asked you about your client or agreed to interview them. We know who we reached out to and replied to and it's a great way to NOT get media coverage.

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If you want to give hot takes on how American journalists can do better, go ahead and pull up job postings for media professionals in a smaller American city. 1. What do the positions pay? 2. How many positions are there Then do a Google search for media layoffs. Oh yeah and everyone hates us.

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Emailing potential sources for stories right now be like: "Given the continuous unfolding of more newsworthy and important events, could you make time for a Google meet with some nerd who wants to ask questions about robots?"

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What's really telling about digital marketing is that to sell website accessibility to CEOs who would rather leave their WordPress sites unattended and open to malicious code than hire a creative, the search engine has to be higher on the priority list than the person needing accessibility

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Why not do both.

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The best thing about teaching a coms course about How to Use The Internet Intelligently is that you might have to scrap half of the content in Chapter 3 of the textbook (Pub date: 2023) for all of the new information that has already made it obsolete.

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I'm looking for sources on social robots and elder care for a feature I'm writing. Share this post with a great academic who has very strong opinions about social robots! Thank you.

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Looking for academic sources who study social robots in elder care for a feature article I'm writing. Email me: nia at nia norris dot com

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Some parents in a nearby town were big mad about this being assigned at the high school. So I bought it. And it absolutely wrecked me. First, it had all of the makings of a great dystopian story: surveillance, social robots, an overreaching state. But as a mom, it was just a gut punch. Read it.

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This one goes out to all the web development and computer science teachers that will be explaining basic file structures next week

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My insta video feed is suddenly just OF sex workers and while I respect sex work as a profession (and might even have a pair of clear platform shoes tucked away from days yore), it's not quite the content I'm looking for. Is it an influx from TT or the creators I want to see leaving the platform?

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About seven months ago, Google's AI summaries told users to eat rocks and glue pizza and now I get to assign the Hard Fork episode about it to my media literacy students

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