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The Making of a Meme

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TIME will join several panels at the nine-day tech, music and film festival in Austin, which begins March 8. In a session on social media, TIME’s director of photography, Kira Pollack, will explain how Diana Walker’s sober image of Hillary Clinton at work, below, became the wry Texts from Hillary meme. For more, go to time.com/sxsw

MORE IDEAS ABOUT WOMEN AND WORK

The conversation sparked by TIME’s cover story on Sheryl Sandberg continues online, with pieces by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, above, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and others. To add your voice, go to time.com/sandberg

Photographer as Witness

‘This is a devastating bit of storytelling through pictures. I have no words.’

–@edebonneval, on Sara Naomi Lewkowicz’s photo-essay for LightBox on TIME.com While shooting a series on a man in Ohio, Lewkowicz witnessed him beating his girlfriend. She will do a follow-up story on the woman’s journey since then. A window into an unseen epidemic, the essay drew thousands of comments.

SOUTH AFRICA’S PISTORIUS

The striking image of Oscar Pistorius [“Man, Superman, Gunman,” March 11], taken by photographer Pieter Hugo, “will live on for years to come,” wrote the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade. Alex Perry’s cover story about the South African Olympian on trial for murdering his girlfriend puts the shooting in the context of South Africa’s culture of violence. It sparked heated debate. The influential blog Africa Is a Country criticized TIME for turning one case into a “gummed-together” narrative. On Twitter, South African politician Gareth Morgan called the piece “difficult to read, but largely an accurate account” of his country.

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