Author: Kate
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Relationships as work
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the spaces that people occupy in each other’s lives. Relationships are hard work. This is true in that the most enduring ties are built on daily decisions to maintain them. The metaphor shouldn’t stretch to the point of relationships being toil, the work punishing and desperate, undertaken in…
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5.10.20 aesthetics game
Type your name + aesthetics in the Pinterest search bar and create a personal moodboard. I’d say this came out well for how random it was.
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status 03 march 2020
Today is the killer week for the term. Internship and TA duties, 3 report deadlines and a final presentation, two interviews, and who knows what else will crop up. I just need to get out of this alive, and hopefully with enough to replenish my energy. It occurs to me that I’ll need to inform…
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“There are always other places.”
In the penultimate episode of the Korean drama Hotel del Luna, there’s a scene where the undying owner of the hotel, Jang Man-wol, looks back on her portraits from the hotel’s different eras. There are no photos of any of her staff then. Koo Chan-sung, the current manager, tells her she should have taken some…
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Redefining media dynamics in the age of social media*
https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/1223502667823140864 In the days leading up to Brexit Day, Boris Johnson broke “with long-standing tradition” and chose to keep broadcasters from recording his message. Instead, as Jon Williams from Ireland’s national broadcasting service observed above, the PM used social media as his primary channel for sending the message out. Now, Johnson hasn’t had the friendliest relationship with…
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The novel coronavirus and misinformation fears in PH social media
This term, one of our modules focuses on relationship management in the social media age. Part of the class requirements has been to post interesting cases or examples we come across on social media, and this has sparked some great discussions in the class forums. One of the more recent posts was about Starbucks’ effective…
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