But in the midst of an article largely about how wonderful it is to have research money harvested by grad students and postdocs, how wonderful it is to have a growth in million-dollar gifts, and how wonderful it is to have new programs like fitness and leisure studies, the appeal to social change rings a little hollow.
A week later, social services rang.
"She's said: 'This is all some American thing.'" When Julia was five, social services rang.
It was when rules of social behavior rang false to him, Ms. Stanton-Paule suspected, that he found them especially hard to grasp.
"I've known of situations where you'd have a social worker ring you up for advice who's a bit concerned, but who's been told not to call because it's going to cost too much to talk to you," she says.
But every time you enter the social media ring, you might find yourself starting from square one: muted in someone's Facebook feed without your knowledge, or blocked on Twitter; ritualistically unfollowed on Tumblr or confronted with shared photos from a party you weren't invited to with "friends".
The comedia was essentially, therefore, a social drama, ringing a thousand changes on the accepted foundations of society: respect for crown, for church, and for the human personality, the latter being symbolized in the "point of honour" (pundonor) that Vega commended as the best theme of all "since there are none but are strongly moved thereby".
Instead, a message might say something like, "Your article about social media rang especially true.
Today, the BBC threw its hat into the social media ring, too — it's putting its sports coverage into a new Timeline app.
Tens of thousands packed Tahrir as the old chants of "Down with the regime" and "Bread, freedom, social justice" rang out alongside newer ones of "Leave Morsi!" and "Gika" (the first martyr of Morsi's tenure).
