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The Power of Social Media and Misinformation

Many of us rely on social media sites to get up to date information about what’s going on in the news, rather than watching a news broadcast or reading a newspaper, however this can be problematic if that particular social …

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Has Social Media Caused Us To Grieve Differently?

America experienced a tragedy this week when bombs were set off at the Boston Marathon, and innocent people were killed and injured. There was an immediate outpouring of emotion on social media supporting the victims and their families, as well …

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Is Privacy Not Important to Us Anymore?

Facebook has launched its new Facebook Home app, which works with the Android phone operating system to make it easy to access Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook Camera all within one app that appears on the users’ home screen. …

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April Fools Day In the Technological World

It’s the same thing every April 1st, technology companies try to outdo each other with pranks, there even seemed to be a little prank war going on between rivals Google and Microsoft Bing. This is the one day where productivity …

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Has Kickstarter Changed the Way the Movie Industry Works?

To many fans that have lost a favorite television show and have longed for a conclusion movie to be made but there seems to be no studio interest in making one, Kickstarter campaigns have changed all of that. Kickstarter is …

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Yahoo’s Telecommuting Ban Receives Major Backlash

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has given her employees until June to commute to an office everyday, essentially ending employees telecommuting from home. This decision from Mayer has been met with a lot of criticism, there has been some speculation that …

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Is Google Making Us Lazy?

It’s happened to us all, we can’t remember that one actor in a movie or the song from that commercial and the first thing we do is pull up Google. When looking up a simple question on Google you can …

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Are Some Images in the Media too Graphic?

In Arielle Emmett’s article “Too Graphic”, she talks about how after the earthquake in Haiti, the news outlets published photographs that were too graphic and in great quantity. This sparked the debate of whether or not the photos were documenting …

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Are We Too Dependent On New Technology?

New technology is extremely pervasive in today’s society; everyone has smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc.., and more and more people use mobile banking and even mobile learning. I have noticed that since getting a smart phone and an iPad, I …

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How Does Over Sharing On Social Media Affect Us?

In today’s society social media pretty much controls every aspect of our lives; with every social media outlet having an app for smart phones, we can check Facebook, Twitter and Instagram any chance we get. After being asked the question …

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