Media in sentence

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Sexual assault, along with other kinds of injustices, is reported in the media all the time.

We live in an incredibly interconnected world with the proliferation of social media, which is of course a fantastic resource for igniting social change.

It was giving airtime to the issue of sexual assault, opening up discussions amongst friends, amongst families, in the media that had been closed for too long, and stressing that victims shouldn't feel to blame for what happened to them.

But in this way, we can begin to use social media as an active tool for social justice, as a tool to educate, to stimulate dialogues, to make those in positions of authority aware of an issue by listening to those directly affected by it.

And when we create noise on social media, let it not drown out the needs of those affected, but instead let it amplify their voices, so the internet becomes a place where you're not the exception if you speak out about something that has actually happened to you.

And if we allow social media to deliver that, then it can deliver a very powerful form of justice, indeed.

I have a friend who developed such computational systems to predict the likelihood of clinical or postpartum depression from social media data.

We see these ideas again and again in the media, in public health policy, doctors' offices, in everyday conversations and in our own attitudes.

But a lot of people are upset because they say, "Washington's broken, we don't trust the establishment, we hate the media."

The foremost challenges I had to face and overcome on this journey had to do with media, muscle and money.

Let's start with media.

There are those who say gender doesn't matter when it comes to media and politics.

It proved harder for me to both get access and airtime in media.

As a matter of fact, the leading candidate appeared in broadcast media 87 times in the months leading up to the elections, whereas I appeared 31 times.

And I am not saying media is doing this consciously.

I think largely this has to do with unconscious bias, because in media, much like everywhere else, we have both conscious and unconscious bias, and we need to have the courage to talk about it if we want to change it.

But media really matters, and every time I appeared on TV, we saw and experienced a rise in the polls, so I know firsthand how much this matters and why we have to talk about it.

So I did face this, but I will say this to compliment the Icelandic media.

When access to media proved to be so difficult, we ran our own media.

But even with one third the media, one third the financial resources, and only an entrepreneurial team, but an amazing team, we managed to surprise everyone on election night, when the first numbers came in.

And then what you may not know because our American media did not report it, the Icelandic women walked out again on Monday.

In a 24-hour media cycle, the words "parking dispute" had already become the go-to sound bite.

I know that I have to give my family voice, and I do the only thing I know how: I send a Facebook message to everyone I know in media.

I ask him what he thinks we should do, given the bombardment of local media interview requests.

These are all very different examples of people who drew upon their platforms and resources in academia, tech and media, to actively express their allyship.

Social media has often been framed by techno-optimists as this great connecting force that would bring people together.

But with the rise of negative advertising and social media and all sorts of other trends, increasingly, the way elections are done is that each side tries to make the other side so horrible, so awful, that you'll vote for my guy by default.

Now, I don't want you to get the impression that the blockchain is the solution to everything, even though the media has said that it's going to end world poverty, it's also going to solve the counterfeit drug problem and potentially save the rainforest.

A young person can have hundreds of friends on social media, but when they need to find a friendly face, someone who can be there as their friend, to talk to, they do not find one.

Why is it that their lost lives don't generate the same amount of media attention and communal outcry as the lost lives of their fallen brothers?

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