Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
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Posted by Caroline Short on August 11, 2011
This week’s ‘language in new media’ post explores the ‘melody of microblogging’ in ‘The real sound of Twitter’. 21-year-old student Sam Harman, or “evil doctor tweet” as he is sometimes known, has created a programme which turns the global language of Twitter into music. Twinthesis, or ‘Twitter powered synthesis’, harnesses the daily tirade of tweets [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on November 24, 2010
Would you like to get your students writing creatively in English, but aren’t sure where to start? Perhaps you should encourage them to take part in a exciting new project by artist, writer and film director Tim Burton. The idea is that individuals contribute to a Tim Burton story via microblogging service Twitter, and it’s [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on November 11, 2010
Stan Carey’s post yesterday was a nice reminder of how a word or phrase can suddenly gain widespread currency simply as a result of fashion. And as with any trend, the kudos gained by the user declines in inverse proportion to the number of users – so that in the end the phrase becomes an [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on November 11, 2010
Yesterday’s demonstrations against the rise in university tuition fees in Britain has highlighted a change in the language and mechanics of political protest. For the first time, students organised themselves via social networking sites like Facebook, and when things turned violent, police used Twitter to communicate with troublemakers. Many of the protestors themselves were filming [...]
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Posted by Finn Kirkland on September 07, 2009
Or perhaps #teachertuesday? Or even #be_nice_wednesday? Does anyone know what on earth I’m on about? I’ll be honest, I’m struggling. But slowly, gradually …, I think I’m getting there. Whilst spending an inordinate amount of time on Twitter the other evening, I have to admit to bamboozling my poor fiancée. For those of us that [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 06, 2009
Have you come across the acronyms lol (laugh out loud) or brb (be right back) from texting or instant messaging? Perhaps you have lazily texted or typed C u 2mrw (see you tomorrow)? Are you a fan of the hugely popular Lol Cats (to the left) with their sometimes strange but often hilarious captioning language? [...]
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Posted by Finn Kirkland on March 28, 2009
In the beginning there was the letter. Handwritten, focused, thought-provoking and sincere. Sentences would be considered, structured, and formulated in a way that could evoke any number of feelings and emotions, and it was the sort of piece that, when you finished writing, you felt content with the product in front of you: happy to [...]
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