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Editorial: Don’t demonize expertise

Editorial Board December 4, 2024

There’s a natural tendency among the general populace to question authority. The emergence of social media and internet forums, in particular, has provided a platform for misinformation and conspiracies...

GRAPHIC: CASEY WOOD ’23/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s community reflects on social media usage

Niyada Birch November 16, 2021

Like many students at St. Joe’s, Saraiah Ferguson ’25 spends an estimated 10 hours per week scrolling through social media apps such as Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, checking these accounts...

Shimanek with her internet hotspot.
PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE
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Free hotspots help with internet connectivity

Mary Comerford March 9, 2021

Like a lot of off-campus students, Thomas Sweeney ’22 and his roommates have trouble connecting to class online. “Sometimes when one of my roommates is logging into class, he’ll have to run to his...

“I know you didn’t think a white girl made that s--- up?”

“I know you didn’t think a white girl made that s— up?”

Kaila Mundell-Hill February 19, 2020

How the internet commodifies black culture If you haven’t heard the song “Lottery (Renegade)” by K Camp or seen the viral dance that accompanies the song on TikTok, then you’ve definitely been...

GRAPHIC: Luke Malanga ’20

Instagram hides likes to promote personal connection

Julia Koerwer December 3, 2019

When she was a sophomore in college, Jenny Fritz ’20 started modeling and posting photos taken by local photographers on her Instagram, which she used as her portfolio. A year and a half later, Fritz...

Speaking of meme culture...

Speaking of meme culture…

Devin Yingling November 19, 2019

The beauty in what constitutes humor nowadays There was a little boy sitting on the street. A man, Noah Centineo, approached this little boy and said, “It doesn’t matter what you’ve done. It matters...

Not so neutral

Not so neutral

Josh Bostrom December 5, 2017

The implications of repealing internet protections We are living in the most connected society of  human history. Never before has the creation, storage and sharing of content been so widespread and so...

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