Status Update

Presents an analysis of social media, discussing how a technology which was once heralded as democratic, has evolved into one which promotes elitism and inequality and provides companies with the means of invading privacy in search of profits.

Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, “Web 2.0” only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research—which includes conversations with entrepreneurs, Internet celebrities, and Silicon Valley journalists—explores the culture and ideology of San Francisco’s tech community in the period between the dot com boom and the App store, when the city was the world’s center of social media development. Marwick argues that early revolutionary goals have failed to materialize: while many continue to view social media as democratic, these technologies instead turn users into marketers and self-promoters, and leave technology companies poised to violate privacy and to prioritize profits over participation. Marwick analyzes status-building techniques—such as self-branding, micro-celebrity, and life-streaming—to show that Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social stratification, demarcated by race, class, and gender.

U.S. transportation systems and the estimated 4,000 transportation facilities move over 30 million tons of freight and provide an estimated 1.1 billion passenger trips each day. Since 2001 the Transp. Security Admin. (TSA) has protected these systems and facilities from terrorist attack. One program TSA utilizes is the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program, through which a common credential is being developed for transportation workers with access to secure areas. Ultimately planned for all transportation sectors, TSA is initially focusing the TWIC program on the maritime sector. This testimony discusses: the progress made in implementing the TWIC program; and some of the remaining program challenges.

Fiction. Graphic Novel. In this interdisciplinary work by two masters of their respective forms, insightful commentary is paired with evocative imagery in a project that started organically on social media and begs the question--is the medium indeed the message? Having completed all of the artwork and edits on the book just before his passing, Cliff Eyland's dazzling creations are paired with George Toles' brilliant prose to create an experience quite unlike any other. Edited by Rhodes Scholar and award-winning artist/playwright Thomas Toles, this collection is the first published collaboration for these very respected and highly decorated Manitoban artists. A brilliantly bent book! Leave it to these two supreme artists, who made social media submit to their sumptuously screwy will, to compel one sublimely twisted tome! Hilarious, delirious, and deeply empathetic... It delights, astonishes, disquiets, and evinces the ineffable in the bewildered human heart.--Bunny Brown Full of satisfying detonations, upended cliches, and poignant mysteries, George Toles's daily fictions are like micro-twisters touching down in Facebook's flat terrain. Cliff Eyland's illustrations are equally rich and ambiguous, making STATUS UPDATE a journey to far-flung places in the imagination.--Kristin Jones I was so hungry for something different. Now I am nourished.--Robert Pasternak

How to Make Your Friends LOL and Get More likes on Your Facebook Status Updates From the editor of one of the world's largest Facebook fan pages, www.funnystatus.com, comes a hysterical gem of a book. Get on board with the hottest Facebook trends, spice up your status updates and be a part of an overall funnier Facebook world. Every status post is under scrutiny for entertainment value. Don't be boring! Learn how to create hilarious, witty, top status updates and get more LIKEs! Find out about topics to avoid (everyday life=not interesting) and topics to hone in on (babies, pets, food). Learn about what NOT to do (post irrelevant song lyrics or ambiguous one worders). Avoid embarrassment and create status updates that stand out. Ensure that YOUR status updates are comedic gold--liked, commented on, reposted and talked about for years to come. Facebook notoriety awaits. Visit www.funnystatus.com for more ridiculously funny status updates.

Opposites attract on an accidental roadtrip in this geektastic series starter from bestselling author Annabeth Albert. Adrian Gottlieb is winning at life. He’s a successful video game designer with everything a man could ask for, including a warm comfy ride to Denver and a date for his sister’s wedding. But he finds himself in need of a total reboot when he’s left stranded at a snowy campground in Utah. Holiday plans? Epic fail. That is until Noah Walters offers him shelter for the night and a reluctant cross-country ride. Nothing about the ultraconservative geoarchaeologist should attract Adrian, but once he discovers Noah’s hidden love for video games, the two connect on a new level. Soon, a quiet but undeniable chemistry sparks. Something doesn’t add up, though. As the miles accumulate and time runs out, Noah must face the most difficult choice of his life. Meanwhile, Adrian must decide whether he’s ready to level up. Is their relationship status worth fighting for, or has this game ended before it’s even begun? #gaymers Book 1: Status Update Book 2: Beta Test Book 3: Connection Error Also by Annabeth Albert: Shore Leave Book 1: Sailor Proof Book 2: Sink or Swim Out of Uniform Book 1: Off Base Book 2: At Attention Book 3: On Point Book 4: Wheels Up Book 5: Squared Away Book 6: Tight Quarters Book 7: Rough Terrain Hotshots: Book 1: Burn Zone Book 2: High Heat Book 3: Feel the Fire Book 4: Up in Smoke

Finalist - Pat Lowther Memorial Prize Rarely does a writer surprise and delight her reader with such beauty, subtlety and subversive vulnerability. Status Update, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang's second book of poetry, is a collection of epigraph poems, each one composed in response to an entry pulled from a real status update posted on Facebook. Tsiang plays with a wide variety of subjects, from the deeply personal, to the banal, to the puzzling, to the philosophical. Her reverence for language, her playfulness and understanding, often mischievous, weave poems of rich diversity, irony and curiosity. Status Update is a collision between one of today's most popular social networking websites and the seemingly rigid conventions of poetry. Through this juxtaposition, Tsiang explores the intimate, perverse, and endlessly compelling world of text that is sent out daily to strangers and friends alike.

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