Social Networking Sites: MySpace, Face book and Twitter in the News and in the Funnies

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Social Networking Sites MySpace, Face book and
Twitter in the News and in the Funnies

• Cherie Dargan
• English Round Table, April 2009

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Signs that Twitter is now part of the mainstream
popular culture

• I was amazed at how many cartoons mentioned
  twittering, Face book or MySpace
• Almost every media outlet, politician, and VIP
  has a twitter presenceBarak Obama twitters
• You can read about twittering in blogs,
  newspapers, books, and even PEOPLE magazine. 
  Theres a list of top ten celebrities who twitter
• Jennifer Aniston may have broken up with her
  boyfriend John Mayer because he was so hooked on
  Twitter that he wasn't paying enough attention to
  her
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Ten Celebrities on Twitter

• Shaquille ONeal
• Lance Armstrong
• Snoop Dog
• Britney Spears
• Dalai Lama
• John Hodgman (the PC guy on the Mac commercials)
• Claire McCaskill, Senator from Missouri
• Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Producer David Lynch
• Actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore
• http//www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article
  /0,28804,1878865_1878867_1878878,00.html

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Examples of Organizations on Face book
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Sources

• Many of these cartoons are from the Waterloo
  Courier and Des Moines Register
• http//www.slideshare.net/chadrichards/top-25-twit
  ter-cartoons
• Great set of cartoonsI found several here
• The two chicken cartoons are from
• http//www.savagechickens.com/

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Contact Cherie

• I will post the entire PPT on my HCC website.
• http//www.hawkeyecollege.edu/faculty/cpost/
• Cherie Dargan, cdargan_at_hawkeyecollege.edu
• Hawkeye Community CollegeWaterloo, IA