Monday, July 4, 2022
Photo courtesy of World's Direction, Flickr. These days, brands are taking a new approach to their social media marketing, coming in the form of creating content that aligns more with Gen Z and millennial humor than it does professional standards. Brands like Duolingo and Lionsgate hop on trendy sounds, boosting their name with millions of […]
Photo courtesy of Harlen Cruz. You remember the black square Instagram flood of 2020, and the following backlash which brought to common use the term “performative activism.” When someone performs activism, they do something with no real impact and claim to be part of a movement, just as so many […]
Photo courtesy of Donnie Ray Jones, Flickr. Whenever I’m on TikTok, I watch content from some of my favorite TikTok moms. I check in on Lena and her jokes, I see if Franklin has started to talk yet and I watch Maia make “babas” for her babies nicknamed “Scotch” and […]
Photo courtesy of MCanzi, Flickr. The unconstrained nature of the internet means that there is space for every kind of community imaginable on social media. From communities that share racial backgrounds to communities united by having the same career, the list is just as endless as that digital space. It also […]
Photo courtesy of Matt Palmer, Unsplash. There are way too many people around the world who do not believe in climate change or take it seriously. Lots of people brush it off as a hoax or something that will not impact them in their lifetime, but that is simply not true. […]
Photo courtesy of Brandon Anderson, Flickr For the past few years, true crime has become a popular trend in modern media. Podcasts, Netflix and YouTube are just some of the hot spots for true crime content. Bailey Sarian, popular for her “Murder Mystery and Makeup Mondays” series, has 5.65 million […]
Photo courtesy of Lala Ros, Flickr Ramapo College hosted Dr. Andrea J. Pitts from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to present “Data Ethics to Data Justice: The Challenge of Building Better Worlds through Data Science” on Feb. 22. Pitts claimed data ethics is expected to turn the current […]
Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wikipedia After Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice of the United States on Monday, Oct. 26, the Girl Scouts of America shared a congratulatory post on all of their social media platforms two days later. These posts, however, were quickly […]
Photo courtesy of reuters.com Alongside Reuters and Ipsos, Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) has published a poll on how Americans see disinformation in their news. Reuters/Ipsos gathered responses from 11 questions that were categorized by Democratic and Republican responses, which were also combined for the overall statistics. The Sept. 20-23 poll […]
Photo courtesy of Frank Buschman, Flickr Instagram likes are slowly disappearing from the public view each day. Last Friday at a Wired event in San Francisco, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announced that likes will start being hidden from U.S. users as early as this week. The idea is that by […]