“The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping popular culture, business, and society today, .. As the web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the web in exciting new directions.” TodayCultureOpportunityForceEvolutionExcitingExtraordinaryEverydayDecadesDrivingMediumsCelebratePushingAwardsCategoriesEveryday LifeAnnualsPopular CultureEsotericDriving ForceNew DirectionsSociety Today Author:Tiffany Shlain
“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.” FirstsTwoStatesCultureLostUnitedUnited StatesChildhoodNew YorkBrotherTvsMomInternetConnectionsMovedMy MomDecadesBordersSpokesCablesArgentinaTwo BrothersCable TvChildhood Friend Author:Viggo Mortensen
“the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.” KindHardBigsLastsLyingCultureWinningPowerfulStepsRightsFeminismMovementPositionVictoryFeministPopsDecadesVersionsManageWomens RightsHandfulPop CultureDownfallInsidiousBacklashFeminist Movement Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.” WorldFactsCultureLinesPiecesWesternBoxesDecadesDrawingInterconnectedWestern CultureDrawing The Line Author:Margaret J. Wheatley
“Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.” ChristianPastCultureReligiousVirtueDecadesWombOver The Past Author:William Anthony Donohue
“I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.” ThinkingCultureHappenedOvercomingDefeatFollowingDecadesCanadaConfederation Author:Stephen Harper