Google’s Gemini Adds Fuel To Raging Fire Of AI Culture Wars

With artificial intelligence quickly becoming the hottest commodity in the technology industry, many prominent companies are working on creating, coding, and publishing their own AI services. The most recent entity to throw their hat into the ring was Google when they released their ‘Gemini’ model into the world. One of the main capabilities the model …

You Can Trust This Article Is Real, Right?

A few days ago on February 27th, 2023 a Tweet posted by The Post Millennial went live. It was a video that used artificial intelligence technology to manufacture a video that depicts Joe Biden sets the Selective Service act in motion and calls for a national draft. The Tweet can be found here: https://twitter.com/tpostmillennial/status/1630228964479229954 The …

How to Spot a Troll

There are liars all over the internet, and sometimes it can be difficult to parse through everything you see online and determine what is fact and what is fiction. People participate in an act the internet has dubbed "trolling", where they purposefully spread misinformation for the sake of their amusement. Browsers of the web might …

The Politicization of the Algorithm: Creating a Divide in News Media

When it comes to news media, the algorithm influences more than you realize. Image source: Financial Times Across the realm of the internet, there is perhaps no more nebulous and intimidating a term as the fabled "Algorithm". Search engines and most Web 2.0 sites implement some form of algorithm for content recommendations, with social media …

Absurdity vs. Rhetoric: The Morality of Free Speech through the Medium of Memes

Image source: Quartz.com The intricacies of the American idea of free speech, in any form, are often contentious and hotly debated. To any owner of a smartphone, it should come as no surprise to hear that these debates often take place on the internet. In our modern culture, the internet encompasses the widest spectrum of …

What is Real On Social Media Platforms?

Social media has become one of the largest platforms for mass circulation information. Many journalists have switched to social media to convey stories to a more comprehensive audience. These social media platforms contain varied methods of spreading media and news such as videos that contain commentary from the consumer of the media. With such mass …

Twitter’s Coverage of News Events

Twitter is the new way of communicating with friends, peers, and the world. Within the click of a button and 280 characters, journalists and modern-day citizens can influence the planet within seconds. While Twitter can be used to discuss various topics, a subject that is discussed frequently is newsworthy to our country. More recently, the …

Fan Mobilization: #ReleaseTheSnyderCut

Zack Snyder in 2016 at San Diego Comic Con Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikipedia Fandom Online More often than not fans across a wide spectrum of entertainment are talking about the things they love online. Whether it be appreciation, a bizarre meme, or just talking about how attractive a character is, social media serves …

How Social Media Platforms Like Twitter Shape Social Interactions

Everyone seems to use social media these days. Roughly seven in ten Americans told PEW Research that they personally do in 2021. And while the evidence that these forms of communication are replacing in-person interactions is not conclusive, they are certainly at least supplemental. Social Media Landscape by fredcavazza on Flickr. One of the many …

Twitter Trends: What are we looking at?

We live in an increasingly rapid digital world, and websites like Twitter are becoming the main spreaders of information and news. You can pop on your timeline, see posts and bits of information shared by friends, sort through a personally catered “What’s Happening” tab, and discover what’s trending across the site. All of what you …