Failure to communicate: Disconnect in the 21st century
Min Seo Riu takes a digital pen to paper to consider how technology has influenced modern communication and relationships.
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Min Seo Riu takes a digital pen to paper to consider how technology has influenced modern communication and relationships.
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Melody Chen contemplates BeReal's innate contradiction: a social media app claiming devotion to authenticity.
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Melody Chen investigates the unforeseen, and often unnoticed, human biases that have wormed their way into today's AI.
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Talia Smith examines the gendered emotional expression of exclamation points (or lack thereof).
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Blake McQuilkin discusses the newest nonsense to grace our digital landscape: NFTs.
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Robyn Violanda explores the contributions and lack of recognition for Black content creators on social media platforms like TikTok.
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The Opinion Staff reflects on another quarter of virtual learning.
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Reese Coblentz argues that verifying UC Santa Barbara on Instagram is more important than you might think.
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Toni Shindler-Ruberg unpacks the trend of gendered artificial intelligence and its implications of automatically conflating femininity with servitude.
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Katie Caracciolo explores the "Final Girl" trope in horror movies, delving into the past and recent representation of women in the genre.
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Min Seo Riu unpacks the rise of streaming services and resulting decline of physical media.
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Brian Byrne explores some of the misconceptions about and true dangers of artificial intelligence.
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Christine Tu expresses her frustration with the overabundance of less-than-ideal streaming services.
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Nathan Lee and Liliana Ma scroll through the pros and cons of social media's widening virtual grasp.
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Christine Tu discusses her frustration with Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
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