FM: National Productions
DT: Friday July 27, 2012
RE: 51% Show #1202
STATIONS: If you have comments or suggestions, please contact Susan Barnett at SBARNETT@WAMC.ORG
ATTENTION PRODUCERS and REPORTERS:
51% wants you! Got a great story featuring remarkable people? Is there a women’s angle? Pitch it and get national airplay! Email producer/host Susan Barnett at sbarnett@wamc.org. with your pitch. If we like it, we'll ask you to send the story for review. Wanted: interesting and enlightening women's issues stories, broad social issues from a women's perspective, personal essays, commentaries and profiles of inspirational women.
Here is this week's information on 51% #1202.
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BILLBOARD – Susan Barnett (Music Out)
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Newsweek had a disturbing report earlier this month that details studies claiming that our addiction to our technology is making us unhinged. Americans now spent at least eight hours a day in front of computer. Teenagers spend 11 hours on an average school day when you add in multitasking on several devices. The average teen gets or sends 3700 texts a month – two times the average four years ago.
Studies now show our cyborg existence is making us irritable, depressed, anxious and compulsive. Chances are the technology isn’t going away – and that means there’s a whole field of specialists concentrating on how to eliminate at least some of the most problematic issues. Judith Donath is a theorist and designer of social media – and currently a faculty fellow at Harvard.
10:39 Judith Donath Linkedin Culture Barnett
That’s Judith Donath, theorist and designer of social media. She is a faculty fellow at Harvard University.
Coming up, mixed feelings about the Olympics... and the real story of a name we all know. If you missed part of this show or want to hear it again, visit the 51% archives at wamc.org. This week’s show is #1202.
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London has the world’s attention, with the summer Olympic games bringing much-needed tourist dollars and plenty of logistical nightmares. And quietly, far to the east, the mad Olympic scramble is beginning in another location. Russia's southern-most city is gearing up to host the Winter Olympics in 2014. Russian president Vladimir Putin says hosting the Games is a long-time dream for his country, but many residents say Olympic construction has become a nightmare. Julia Barton reports.
5:24 Olympic building
And finally, Gilles Malkine checks in with a profile of the mother of radiation therapy.
4:51 Marie Curie
Gilles Malkine is a writer and musician. He lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains.
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That’s our show for this week. Thanks to Katie Britton for production assistance. Our theme music is by Kevin Bartlett. This show is a national production of Northeast Public Radio. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock.
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Thanks so much for joining us…we’ll be back next week with another edition of 51% The Women's Perspective.
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