Tag: Social Media
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Just skip to the end, already
Online Twitter debates cut down to 280 characters a bite. Snapchat messages that disappear in seconds. Clickbait. Eye-catching, snappy and compact. Condensed news has astonishing prevalence in modern society, and its consequent implications are startling. It polarizes beliefs and thoughts, skews viewpoints and treats sensitive, complex topics as something cursory — as things that can…
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Sensationalism of child actors causes long-term damage
Child actors and influencers are subject to public scrutiny as a result of media sensationalism and social media networks. While seeing child actors all over news articles and videos is nothing new, our increased attention on them is giving rise to a new problematic phenomenon – children who rise to fame through social media. It…
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Athletics should expand reach
Staff members in the athletic department staff announced on Twitter that they will dress up in costumes as an incentive to raise money for Comets Give, but their efforts were only directed at student-athletes instead of the student body as a whole. The charity drive, which was held for the first time, was a competition…
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Ease of access to news can be mixed blessing
Ability of users to get information at any given time can lead to public more fixated on quick bites rather than substantial pieces In a day and age where information is disseminated in nanoseconds and an unfathomable amount of content is at our fingertips, it’s not surprising that people want what they’re looking for in…