By 3:29 p.m. EDT, on Tuesday, April 21, the YouTube clip of Susan Boyle singing “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables had enjoyed 37,001,482 views. Media like YouTube are changing the way we participate in musical culture.
Comment asked regular contributors to answer two questions in response to this phenomenon:
What is your favourite YouTube clip?
How has YouTube or similar media affected your media consumption habits?
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A contemporary Canadian poet has a radical take on the cross, because he is a carpenter who pays close attention to city trees.
A new view of the “American Dream” was being created, including a “right” to unlimited consumption, achieved without personal responsibility. But now this unrealistic, ephemeral dream has become a nightmare, exported globally.
Gary Goodyear, one of Stephen Harper’s federal cabinet ministers, has been burned badly by “gotcha” journalism on a question of evolution.
But the real question, lying just below the surface, is this: Is there a proper place to articulate religious beliefs? Can believers find public spaces where their beliefs are respected, not targeted?
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My work as a family life photographer brings me into other people's lives, and their relationships, in a very intimate way. Sharing in their expectant waiting, joy, and celebration, as well as their everyday living, I am reminded of the call given to Christians to...
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I challenge future teachers by having them read texts and watch films that complicate their assumptions—hoping that they will avoid both reserved cynicism and naive optimism.
Those who lived through the Great Depression were profoundly changed by their experience. We would do well to consider what lessons we can learn now, and how we might change from these experiences.
Insatiable curiosity, and a love of convergence, connection, and cross-cultural coincidence.
The dream of a people, the dispute of a nation.
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