Sherrilynne Starkie

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It heard about many contentious issues from industry representatives but when the report was published, the public interest was entirely absent. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members. Mainstream media picked up on the story.

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Nine years of Twitter

Sherrilynne Starkie

I joined Twttr (that’s what it was called then) on April 3, 2007 just as it started to gain traction at SXSWi. I also use Tweetdeck on my home computer and Hootsuite at work to publish and schedule tweets. A version of this article was originally published on ThornleyFallis.com. It was pretty boring at first. Instagram or Vine?

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