Quotes about "Social Media & Online Culture"

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ”

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ”

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. ”

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist. ”

Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The culture is not innocent. ”

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. ”

Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground. ”

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. ”

With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don't have to guess what they like - you can ask. ”

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics. ”