April 14, 2016 Most know Superman and Supergirl are adopted, along with Peter Parker as Spiderman, Dick Grayson as Robin, and heck even Bamm Bamm Rubble from the Flintstones...but all too often in media, characters depicted as adopted get the ‘cartoon’ treatment even when they’re not cartoons. From language used in journalism coverage, to controversial Avengers punchlines in … [Read more...]
Supergirl’s Adoption Lens: Swooping Past Stereotypes
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A Social Media Helpline for Schools: I Can Helpline
May 19, 2015 Once upon a time, call-in centers were helpful first responders to direct levels of care, staffed with human specialists not robots, touch tone prompts, and layered redirected voicemails entangled like spaghetti.In a throwback to an era of personal, customized approaches to dilemmas, the newly proposed social media hotline for schools, called I Can Helpline.org, … [Read more...]
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