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Fogler Library Covid-19 Misinformation Challenge Post, Jen Bonnet, Senta Sellers May 2020

Fogler Library Covid-19 Misinformation Challenge Post, Jen Bonnet, Senta Sellers

Raymond H. Fogler Library

Social media post promoting Fogler Library's COVID-19 Misinformation Challenge, aimed at helping participants discern fact from fiction in popular media. At the time of the content's submission to the University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive, approximately 483 people had signed up from across the United States, and even from international locations.


An Examination Of Pervasive Language Around Sexual Harassment Through The Lens Of Anita Hill, Christine Blasey Ford, And #Metoo, Elizabeth Theriault May 2020

An Examination Of Pervasive Language Around Sexual Harassment Through The Lens Of Anita Hill, Christine Blasey Ford, And #Metoo, Elizabeth Theriault

Honors College

This thesis explores the hypothesis that the #MeToo Movement and Twitter have contributed to the changes in language used by individuals to describe sexual harassment and the survivors that come forward with their stories. To do so, this thesis identified common themes derived from language used in New York Times articles published during the Hill and Thomas hearings of 1991, as well as Tweets published between the dates surrounded the Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh hearings, September 25, 2018 and September 29, 2018, to create a comparable platform for language used in similar settings 27 years apart. It contains a literature …


University Of Maine Social Media Policy, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications Jan 2014

University Of Maine Social Media Policy, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

General University of Maine Publications

Screenshot of the University of Maine's Social Media Policy.