For those wishing to analyze exhaustively trends within social media utterances themselves, services like Gnip – which, for a fee, promises "complete and comprehensive access to every publicly available Tweet dating back to the very first Tweet from March 21, 2006" – offer an unprecedented "fire hose" of data, from which marketing and research firms are already gratefully guzzling.
Commissioner Ajit Pai held a press conference dinging Chairman Tom Wheeler's net neutrality plan, followed by a fusillade of media appearances and other utterances.
At most of his Pennsylvania stops, the national press was represented mainly by a pair of young TV-network "embeds," whom Clinton regards not as reporters but as media jackals who record his every utterance yet broadcast only his outbursts, a phenomenon that has helped transform him into a YouTube curiosity and diminished him — perhaps permanently.
Appinions tracked how much attention was paid to their utterances in the mainstream media, the blogosphere and in social media over a 90-day period up to December 11th 2014.
For the media, the oracular nature of his utterances, and the remarkable courage with which he has defied all predictions of his imminent mortality, have imbued some of his theories with a quasi-mystical status.
The way that the economists on the list are chosen is based on "how much attention was paid to their utterances in the mainstream media, the blogosphere and in social media" during the three months leading up to December, according to the magazine.
The novelist Arundhati Roy, accusing Mr. Hazare of tacitly backing right-wing violence, asked in an article in The Hindu: "Who is he really, this new saint, this Voice of the People?" After the media's canonization of Mr. Hazare, his utterances and actions slowly began to expose him as a very different man from what people had been led to believe.
Any such policy must recognize that social media can be used to make extramural utterances, which are protected under principles of academic freedom (p. 15).
The fandom that has come to surround Warren has become its own social media perpetual-motion machine, ensuring that her utterances obtain a cross-platform virality.
If anything, the media's current obsession with Donald Trump ― his every utterance or tweet treated as "breaking news!" ― just provides one additional excuse for highlighting trivia, while slighting issues that deserve far more attention than they currently receive. .
