Quarterback Matt Barkley says he uses social media to convey his personality.
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Social media holds users accountable
The boundaries that separate the public sphere from the private sphere are becoming blurry and consequential.
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A recent Pew Study found 36 percent of young adults heard about Kony 2012 through the Internet.
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The Annenberg Innovation Lab and the Viterbi Signal Analysis Lab use IBM software in their newly developed Oscar Senti-meter.
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The 2012 Grammys have come and gone, but an interest in the honorees’ artistic inspiration remains. For many of the hottest artists, their personal lives make for songwriting gold — and sometimes the messier their lives are, the more brilliant an artist’s work becomes. Adele took home a whopping six Grammys, including record of the [...]
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New coffee shop offers cool ambiance and wide selection of snacks and coffees but fails to impress with underwhelming drink flavors.
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Instead of blaming technology for students’ short attention spans, instructors should use it to get students excited about class.
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In a network-savvy move, the USC Admissions Office took its question-and-answer session online from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Wednesday. The Twitter-based information session allowed interested applicants and families to sit in on an admissions answer session remotely, as officers tweeted updates. From 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., the floor belonged to those remote Twitter [...]
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Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., passed away Oct. 5 at the age of 56. News of his death dominated global media headlines and the online sphere throughout the day, with tweets tagged as “#RIP Steve Jobs” and “#ThankYouSteve” peaking in the late afternoon and continuing into the evening. USC [...]
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Posting birthday gifts on Twitter might be the next big fad. To wish Lil’ Wayne a happy 29th birthday — which the artist celebrated Sept. 27 — Justin Bieber tweeted his own version of the rapper’s “How to Love.” Posted during the insomniac hours of Wednesday morning, the tweet read, “Trying to sleep. until then [...]
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