Episode url: https://getnerdywithit.com/episode30 Host: Jennifer Ruggiero, Co-Host: Andrew Nelson, Guest Host: Vincent Brown

Has social media had any effect on your ability to concentrate?  Do you feel social media has affected in-person communications?  Do you hear people talking in textspeak?  Has our population’s ability to spell taken a turn for the worse?

We discuss all of these items and more in Episode 30 of Get Nerdy With It.

 

 

Referenced items:

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• The Effects of Social Media on How We Speak and Write
  
• http://socialmediatoday.com/karenn1617/1745751/effects-social-media-how-we-speak-and-write
  

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• How Does Social Media Affect the Way We Communicate?
  
• http://itviz.com/2013/06/how-does-social-media-affect-the-way-we-communicate/
  

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• Is Social Media Sabotaging Real Communication?
  
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/susantardanico/2012/04/30/is-social-media-sabotaging-real-communication/
  

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• “The Shallows” by Nicholas Carr:
  
• http://amzn.com/0393339750
  
• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/books/review/Lehrer-t.html?_r=0
  
• http://youtu.be/lt_NwowMTcg
  

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• Coca-Cola Social Media Guard – The latest Coca-Cola commercial showing the social media impacts on real life communication: http://youtu.be/_u3BRY2RF5I
  

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• Jimmy Kimmel, Jonah Hill, & Justin Timberlake show you what a Twitter conversation sounds like in real life: #Hashtag: http://youtu.be/57dzaMaouXA
  

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• #Hashtag2: http://youtu.be/Kwq_GraOC9E
  

 

 

Have a listen: Episode 30 – Effects of Social Media on getnerdywithit.com, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, SoundCloud, iHeartRadio, & Spreaker.

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