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> Anastasia Goodstein: Fame! I Want to Live Forever... (HuffingtonPost)
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Lakshmi Chaudhry wrote a fascinating piece in The Nation about how social media (social networks, blogs, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.) has quickly evolved into a toolset for "Generation Me" to become famous. The critique is that with this generation being so caught up in self promotion and validation, young people have developed an aversion to collective action. Yet this type of individualism ...

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