By Megan Farnam This year, Dove released a three-minute video of Mary’s destructive journey with media and body image. It begins with images and videos of a sweet, beautiful young girl looking happy playing with her friends and finding interest in reading. It continues on to show Mary being [...]
By Tylar Bloch Schools across the country are tightening up their policies to minimize smartphone use, ranging from full-fledged smartphone bans to stricter guidelines around what constitutes permissible smartphone use during school hours. Research done in 2020 by the National Center for Education Statistics suggests that smartphone bans were implemented [...]
By Tylar Bloch Advertising has evolved over the years, and the internet has ushered in a new era where ads can reach us 24/7 while tailoring to our individual tastes and experiences. But it’s gotten to a point where it can be hard to tell just exactly where an [...]
By Tylar Bloch Apple certainly delivered on their commitment to surprising and delighting consumers when they introduced the Vision Pro earlier this month. The Vision Pro was presented as their first “spatial computer”, which overlays the user interface onto the physical world, and aims to populate our field of [...]
By Stephanie Olson With technology constantly advancing, it is almost impossible for children not to be exposed to it at such a young age, even 93 percent of children ages two to four spend at least some time on a mobile device (Klein, 2022). It is probably the best [...]
By Ellie Halpert The fourth episode of Netflix’s Docuseries, “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet,” features one major warning: What you put on the internet stays on the internet. This case takes place in the small town of Belmont, where high schoolers are highly involved in the [...]
By Ellie Halpert The third episode of Netflix’s cyber-warning docuseries, “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet,” features a young woman and her descent into the alt-right and Nazi subculture. The episode discusses the idea that we are in an informational crisis, where it is impossible for [...]
By Ellie Halpert The second episode of Netflix’s hit docuseries “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet” takes a deep dive into conspiracy theories. In particular the episode focuses on the death of Seth Rich - a 27 year old man working for the Democratic National Party [...]
By Ellie Halpert The first episode of Netflix’s Docuseries, “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet,” discusses the unexpected dangers that come with online gaming. Gaming culture is incredibly aggressive and gamers say harsh, cruel things to strangers, or even their friends. In the online gaming community, [...]
By: Meghan Mathias Social media is not inherently evil. Pretty much everyone has some form of it and it can be a really amazing way to share your life and keep in touch with friends. However, many studies have proven that spending excessive amounts of time scrolling through this media [...]
