Our Pop Culture Panel looks at Time magazines Person of the Year and the top tweets of the year. Plus, a millenial's dictionary and the 25th anniversary of texting.
Time magazine has announced not one individual as Person of the Year, but countless persons who have stood and spoken out against rape culture.
The magazine is calling them the “Silence Breakers.” Last year’s recognition was given to President Donald Trump, who was named runner-up this year for what the publication calls changing “the rules of presidency.”
In an overview of the year, our pop culture panelists discuss the most popular tweets of 2017. Former president Barack Obama takes three of the top 10 spots, but the most popular has to do with free chicken nuggets. Is our online interaction a reflection of society?
Is 'adulting' a word? According to Buzzfeed: yes! The media company developed its own style guide in 2014, and their global copy chief, Emmy J. Favilla, recently wrote a book about how language has changed in the internet age.
She argues that our modification of words (like “adulting”) and other trends (like dropping punctuation in sentences) isn’t a sign of deterioration but evolution.Should we, as Favilla suggests, call these changes the process of “languaging?”
Plus, This year also marks the 25th anniversary of texting. That’s right, SMS messages have been around longer than some of the millennials who send them.
The first SMS ever sent read “Merry Christmas” and was developed by engineer Neil Papworth. How large a role in our lives has texting grown to play? What role do you think it will occupy in the future?
Our Pop Culture Panel includes: Shannon Burns, on-air host with 104.9 Virgin Radio; Marty Chan, author and playright and Tom Keenan, professor, speaker, science/tech writer and futurist.
