Reading Time: 3 minutesMany people are leaving X/Twitter because of the “CEO”‘s recent “legislation” in the “White House”.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs we deviate towards quick and easy consumable content, our experience of the world becomes a bunch of fragments, absent of nuance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2020, the American Psychological Association — who you might know better as APA — added reference guidelines for citing a TikTok video.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat if the artists we adore are, in fact, terrible people?
Reading Time: 3 minutesBeReal encourages people to live in the moment, but if you really lived in the moment and put the phone away, you’d miss the notification.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost people’s totally put-together picture-perfect lives are just that: a picture.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Oct. 22, the Fulcrum’s Facebook page was unpublished for, allegedly, breaking Facebook’s page policies. Which policies? We couldn’t tell you. Since then, our editor-in-chief has launched two appeals to Facebook, but we still have yet to hear back from the social media giant.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe same people who said my name sounded like a taco and made Islamophobic comments back in middle school are now posting infographics—how ironic.
Reading Time: 6 minutesA recent study shows that most Canadians want hate speech removed and monitored on social media platforms.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAccording to communications professor Marcel Chartrand, “with social media, [Trump] assembled fringe groups under a single ideology” which is characterized by the acceptance of all forms of hatred.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSocial media platforms should have banned him years ago.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs an instagram influencer, the holiday season is an essential time for my business.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiterally moments after having liked someone’s selfie, my partner will message me and ask why I liked it.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“The disciplining of professors based on ‘micro-aggressions,’ however, sets an unfortunate precedent and represents a slippery slope. No conscientious professor would willingly hurt their students’ feelings,” writes Thomas Boogaart, a professor of contemporary global history at the University of Ottawa since 2004 and a member of the APTPUO’s Board of Directors.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn offshoot of the infamous Instagram partying brand Canadian Party Life has collected thousands of followers by featuring attractive post-secondary students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe term ‘simp’ has become a common word in many people’s vocabulary after social media influencers brought the concept to light. However, it has created an incredibly toxic environment that implies women are lesser than men, and men are shamed for treating women with decency.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Australian wildfires, the Iran plane crash, climate change, Kobe’s death — it seems impossible to escape bad news. Media saturation can impact our socialization, mood, mental health and ability to interact, for better and for worse.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDeciphering emojis in messages can be confusing, but a U of O PhD student is using his research project to break down the meaning behind communicating using emojis. Olivier Langlois submitted his master’s thesis on Sept. 19, which showcased how people responded to emojis within text messages.
Reading Time: 10 minutes“It’s been a technological crisis for the last decade or so, and an advertising crisis, and now it’s sort of an existential crisis. If these things don’t exist – if the reporters and the institutions disappear from towns, campuses, cities, provinces – all of a sudden it’s just news darkness.” — Brett Popplewell, journalism professor at Carleton University.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe #trashtag challenge gets people off of their phones and into the filth.
Reading Time: 7 minutes“It’s a scary world … I’m just thankful to not have been a teenager in the world of the iPhone.” — Lynne McInally, clinical social worker, therapist and instructor at Humber College.
Reading Time: 2 minutesZuckerberg’s sample presentation featured fake news stories the Facebook team plans to promote this election cycle, including headlines such as “Trudeau Pressured Wilson-Raybould to Help Maple Syrup Industry” and “Andrew Scheer Literally Ate A Baby”.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“If we do stay the night, we leave before the sun comes up to avoid the awkward intimacy of the morning after in favour of an uncomfortable Uber ride or the occasional walk home.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf there’s one thing technology can’t do, is replace the fundamental need for passion and curiosity in this field.
Reading Time: 8 minutes“With my own research, we’ve gone in and said we can’t just talk about the negative, we have to see what’s the positive, because if there’s nothing good about this, why are people doing it as much as they are? There’s obviously something good about it.”
