Instagram announces emoji hashtags
Emoji lovers will rejoice as they find themselves now using them even more than before.
Faceless Opinions
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?
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, Continue Reading
The post-selfie scene
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 on her Continue Reading
#BlackTwitter Addresses Cultural Appropriation
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 Continue Reading
Insta-Love or Insta-Hate?
Photos of gourmet burgers, kittens, and famous internet memes are flooding Instagram as you read this. In fact, roughly two hundred million people a month are contributing to the popular Continue Reading
Life Online
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 Continue Reading
Talks About Social Media in the Jasmine Revolution Bloom at SF State
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 Continue Reading