Julia Allison to Make Social Studies Fun for Tribune Media Services
Tribune Media Services is hoping that Julia Allison can make Social Studies fun.
Social Studies is a new, weekly column from Allison, which will be made available to TMS’ newspaper and digital-media customers starting March 1.
Allison is best-known for gracing the cover of the August 2008 issue of Wired, and her columns currently appear in amNew York and Time Out New York. She has also written for Newsweek, New York magazine, The Huffington Post, and Cosmopolitan, and she appears alongside Justin Timberlake and Peyton Manning in ads for Sony’s VAIO laptop.
In Social Studies, she will focus on issues and unknowns people have with Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn via the iPad, desktop, laptop, and smart phone, with initial topics including the dangers of multiple online personalities, netiquette of the Web, babies who Tweet, cyberbullying, and why everyone’s life seems so “perfect” on Facebook.
TMS managing editor Mary Elson said:
Julia has been a...
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