Axis Ideas

This week's episode comes with music -- The Top 10 for the summer and so much more!  Subscribe to the show or get your own e-dition of The Culture Translator via email Friday at https://axis.org/ct/  Every Friday via email ad Every Monday/Tuesday via podcast.  Excerpt: Social media is an unforgiving beast, and whether you make a mistake on TV or on the playground, the voices can be relentless. “At its best, social media has given a voice to the disenfranchised. At its worst, it’s a weapon of mass reputation destruction.” For your teens, social media has the power of life and death, and what might seem like a funny joke can lead to shame. Help them remember that “online shaming is a door that swings only one way: You may have the power to open it, but you don’t have the power to close it. And sometimes what rushes through that door can engulf you too.”