“If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.” PeopleIfsFactsProblemAgeSocialSoundMediaInformationSeriousArgumentPhonesSocial MediaPropagandaBitesSound Bites Author:Barack Obama
“Social media are fundamental to communicate and understand what happens in the world. It's a point of view and an immediate commentary.” WorldHappensSocialViewsMediaFundamentalsCommunicateSocial MediaPoint Of ViewCommentary Author:Franca Sozzani
“There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.” SocialMediaSocial MediaErasCensorship Author:Margaret Cho
“Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.” WorldTodaySocialDealsCompanyRecordsMediaSocial MediaReleaseAround The WorldOutletsRecord CompaniesBack In The Day Author:Keith Sweat
“There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.” TryingSocialCan DoHeardMediaInternetSocial MediaAvenues Author:Keith Sweat
“You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.” SocialMediaSocial MediaIphoneBeing CoolSidelines Author:Susan Rice
“It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.” LongThreeSocialMediaGrewInternetGrew UpNewsLong TimeSocial MediaJournalismLong Time AgoCables Author:Susan Rice
“I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day.” SocialMediaIndustrySocial MediaTiedMusic Industry Author:Tweet
“Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.” ThinkingFacesFallSocialMy OwnMediaPressureNarrativeSpheresLife ExperienceTrapsDominantObservingTransMy Own LifeConstantly Thinking Author:Vivek Shraya
“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.” PeopleWaySometimesSocialTechnologyMediaInformationSourceTownsConstantPlantSocial MediaEmploymentPrimariesConcreteGlobalizationManufacturingPrimary Source Author:Barack Obama
“Right now, what my job is - pardon me? Those are just words. Right now, what my - my job is right now going beyond media conflicts and words is to say that Donald Trump, among other things, told the American people he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and right now Republicans in the House and Senate are doing just that.” PeopleJobsHouseSocialCuttingSecurityMediaTrumpRepublicanRight NowConflictSenateSocial SecurityPardonMedicareMedicaidPardon MeMedicare And Medicaid Author:John Lewis
“People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.” PeopleRealSocialMediaSocial MediaMailPublishWebsiteBack And ForthWeb 2.0 Author:Edward Snowden
“[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.” PeopleMindLooksPersonsStatesHomeYoungFightingNextSocialLosesPayAttentionMediaSeriousTerribleNegativeImpactAthleteSocial MediaProfessionState Of MindRise AboveYoung AthletesRise Above It Author:David Haye
“Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.” ThinkingYearsLastsSocialRecordsFiveHeardGroupsHonestMediaBandSixSevenSocial MediaEightBeing HonestIt Is What It Is Author:Joe Louis Walker
“If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know there's guys that say immigrants come here, and they create so much crime and they take jobs. There's multiple sides to every story.” IfsKnowsStoriesJobsGuySocialSidesMediaCrimeIgnoranceHotSocial MediaDebateImmigrationImmigrantsMultipleButtons Author:George Lopez
“My parents [father Lenny Kravitz and Bonet] did exactly what they wanted and didn't let anyone tell them not to. Now, as women, we need to continue to do that. Especially in the age of social media, when everyone has an opinion and it's so easy to be influenced.” NeedsAgeWantedFatherSocialEasyParentOpinionMediaSocial Media Author:Zoe Kravitz