Fake it 'til you make it.....

Check out the TED talk about body language and the chemical changes that happen in the body as a result:

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are

If you are interested in code-switching (which can be verbal and non-verbal), this npr blog is an excellent source:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/13/177126294/five-reasons-why-people-code-switch

This episode of TED Radio Hour brings together several aspects of communication that are highly relevant to our culture today:

http://www.npr.org/2013/12/13/248190652/spoken-and-unspoken?showDate=2014-05-02

Social Media and Culture

Here is the Clay Shirky talk that Malcolm Gladwell is (in part) reacting to in his New Yorker article:

http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history

and some comments from Gladwell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7YvDXotpo

Links to some interesting articles on the role of social media in the "Arab Spring":

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/what-the-arab-spring-tells-us-about-the-future-of-social-media-in-revolutionary-movements

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/malcolm-gladwell-social-media-revolutions-twitter/

Ideology and Falsity

Here is the article I mentioned about a study from Princeton and Northwestern U. that suggests America is no longer a democracy.

Commentary on the study:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

And, for those of you who need the original study:

https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf

This TED talk explores the idea that fiction can overcome identity politics:

http://www.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction

On political correctness:

https://www.facebook.com/PoliticallyIncorrectHydeParkConfessions?filter=3

http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2013/04/the-unsuprising-racism-at-elite-universities/