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• a  happening or arising without apparent external cause
• s  originating from the self

• Unlike others, it was staged, self-generated, almost ceremonial: a media event.
• But without prompting from the national campaign, dozens of self-generated Obama organizations have sprung up around the state in recent months, drawing in thousands of supporters.
• In San Diego, the housing decline seems to be a self-generated phenomenon, the product of too-high prices and too-crazy lending practices.

• spontaneous
• self-produced

• induced

News & Articles

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• Photographer Takes Personal Branding, Product Placement To A New Level
  Photographer Mike Mellia’s project, Self-Absorbed, goes a step further than Facebook and Instagram, making an actual brand for his lifestyle and physically delivering it into the world In his latest project, photographer Mike Mellia is more or less taking a selfie of society and distributing it in the exact opposite way that most self-generated images are shared. Rather than doing what is ...
  July 11, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Colin Powell in Washington Post
  Do they get marginal support from Iran and Syria? You bet they do,Powell said of the Iraqis. "I have no illusions that either Syria or Iran want to help us in Iraq. I am also quite confident that what is happening in Iraq is self-generated...
• Matt Stone in /FILM (blog)
  We learned from the last two films that these can't all be self-generated,Stone said. "Trey and I are script whores, so we'll be very involved in shaping these projects. We've averaged a movie every five years. We'd like to make more and...
• Richard Bruton in Irish Times
  Mr Bruton described the measures announced in Government Buildings as a "cobbled-together response to their self-generated recession". "Today must rank as one of the weakest and most uncertain performances from a Taoiseach and Minister for...