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Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

Fits of SFSU co-founders Breanna Miller (left) and Esperanza Vaquiz (right) pose in the Quad, Sept. 15, 2022. (Oliver Michelsen / Xpress Magazine)

Turning the Quad into a Runway

Oliver Michelsen, Multimedia Editor
October 14, 2022

SF State’s quad is filled with the sounds of students greeting friends on their way to and from class, landscapers maintaining the plant life and music playing from any one of the speakers positioned...

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Instagram announces emoji hashtags

Jay Garcia
May 12, 2015
Emoji lovers will rejoice as they find themselves now using them even more than before.

Faceless Opinions

amontero
February 14, 2015
A new iPhone app allows users to anonymously like or dislike their friends’ photos. Do apps like this reflect our inability to be honest with one another?
What the hell is Ello?

What the hell is Ello?

Olympia Zampathas
October 26, 2014

A few mornings ago, I woke up and checked my phone; after deleting about fifteen junk messages and other things that I do not care to read in my inbox, I saw an e-mail saying  that my boss had invited...

The post-selfie scene

Catherine Uy
October 24, 2014

Marcela Garcia holds up her iPhone 4s and turns on the front-facing camera, adjusting a light at her desk. The twenty-eight-year-old editor from Alberta, Canada, wants the light to shine...

#BlackTwitter Addresses Cultural Appropriation

Ivane Lund-Soyombo
October 8, 2014

After years and years of trying to tame large backsides “in countless exercise classes,” we can finally relax because according to an article published by Vogue last month, we have officially entered...

Insta-Love or Insta-Hate?

Hillary Smith
October 6, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lmKq9LU690&feature=youtu.be Photos of gourmet burgers, kittens, and famous internet memes are flooding Instagram as you read this. In fact, roughly two hundred million...

Life Online

xpressmagazine
April 29, 2011

She makes her way home on the 9X, a Muni bus line of questionable sanitation, and trudges upstairs. First thing she does is open her MacBook Pro, simultaneously checks her three e-mail accounts and of...

Talks About Social Media in the Jasmine Revolution Bloom at SF State

xpressmagazine
March 23, 2011

Farida Ezzat, a 20-year-old college student from Cairo, steps up on the back of a large truck parked in front the Union Plaza in San Francisco. She can barely be seen over the wooden pallets that run alongside...

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