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My partner runs a module that introduces scholarly concepts a practices to new undergraduate students, and to give them the best possible start to their university careers, he provides exemplary essays as examples of high quality first-year work. This is one he commissioned me to write back in autumn (paid me and everything) as it's about social media, which he does not do, and I do too much. This is a substantial rewrite of an essay by a student , the topic chosen by them, but it wasn't up to his high standards. There was maybe 2-5% of the student's work left by the time I re-researched and re-wrote it. About the Charlie Hebdo hashtags, I thought it might be interesting to share. Content is content is content. 5. Using any social media site of your choosing, select any p ost -2000 cultural event and demonstrate one trend amongst its audience. Discuss the dual Twitter hashtags #JeSuisCharlie and #JeNeSuisPasCharlie as an example of post-event debate. I...

For a week bookended by International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day, it was a stressful one. Instances of the public abuse of Meghan Markle came to a head and a young woman was abducted and murdered, it seems, by someone who vowed to serve and protect. With the timelines on every social media platform flooded with experiences of abuse, it’s all been overwhelming, even when hanging out on the podcast accounts in a vain attempt to build community.  It’s an atrocity that should never happen. We should all feel safe to head home at any time and not have to be wary that the unthinkable will happen. But we are because it does. The conversation around this becomes polarised when men who’ve experienced abuse or been attacked ask, ‘what about me?’ only to be told, ‘this is about us; go and start your own thread.’ I empathise with both positions here, and with trans and non-binary victims who fall through the gaps. I think I lean most to the question of who gets to be part of ‘us’.  The ...