USC should include media literacy in GEs
Gen Z needs specialized education to combat the influx of misinformation.
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Comic Relief: Musk kills comedy
The death of Twitter would be the death of all internet comedy.
USC professor measures political polarization
The Polarization Index covers ten issues, including immigration and abortion.
For politicians, Twitter poses a unique problem
There may be no maxim that millennials are more familiar with than this: “The internet is forever.” In an age of screenshots and retweets, internet ephemera is almost instantly transformed into something more permanent that can be shared weeks, months and even years after the original posting. For most of us, this translates to concern […]
Facebook’s ‘Nearby Friends’ undermines online privacy
Privacy has become a thing of the past with the onset of social media. With every tweet, Instagram post and Facebook check-in, we invite fellow social media users to know more about our lives. But even with the multitude of social media features, there must be limits. Such limits were crossed Monday when Facebook […]
Fake Twitter bomb threats should not be taken lightly
The rules that apply to speech regarding safety in a public space should also apply to cyberspace.
A graduate’s bucket list for Los Angeles
Being sick is the worst. Instead of frolicking in the sunshine last weekend (c’est la vie, USC Springfest 2014 and CicLAvia), I was in bed, with only a copious amount of Kleenex and my Netflix account for comfort. That left me with plenty of time to troll the Internet and write a lot of whiny […]
Kim Kardashian Vogue cover reflects culture
I hate working out. It keeps me away from my happiest place: stuffing my face with mint chocolate chip ice cream. I do, however, subject myself to exercising at least three times per week, or at least that’s what I tell my physician to keep her happy. And usually while running on the treadmill, I turn […]
eReaders refocus on critical reading skills
In honor of National Reading Month, this week retail giant Amazon.com offered a $20 discount on all Kindle models, slashing the price of the basic model to just $49. I used to think the Kindle was an idiotic device, or, at best, something you could read while holding a snifter in the other hand. With […]
Twitter IPO dampens investors’ projections
It’s March 21, 2006. After another long day of debugging and hashing out code at the startup, co-founder of Twitter — twttr at the time — Jack Dorsey sends out the first-ever tweet. What Dorsey published was nothing out of the ordinary. The small team at twttr didn’t know what to think of the idea […]