By Jacob Aldrich Everyone in this day and age knows what social media is, and most everyone we know and care about has and uses at least one form of social media. But with all the good that social media can do, there are also some dangers and explicit [...]
By Jacob Aldrich As children are becoming more and more involved in screens and technology, there has also been another situation which has been seeing more and more increasingly: loud, often angry outbursts from otherwise calm and happy children. With the recent popularization of games such as Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, [...]
By Tylar Bloch Technology has made it easier than ever for kids to access information about the world. In the realm of sex education, however, technology may be unable to fully replace the role that parents can play in teaching their kids about the importance of healthy sexual habits. [...]
By Tylar Bloch Adolescents today are spending one to two hours each day playing video games. And in one study from 2021, in a sample of 3000 students, nearly 20% of males and 8% of females could be classified as having a gaming disorder Excessive gaming in adolescents has been [...]
By Tylar Bloch When you’re reading the news, it’s easy to take the facts at face value. This is especially true when news comes in the form of social media posts and videos, where information can be presented enticingly and without much of the context needed to fully capture [...]
By Kristie Kakos Since the start of chat rooms, social media platforms and any back-and-forth communication between two, or more individuals cyberbullying started evolving. Personally, I come from the “millennial” generation. This generation is considered “digital natives”. We have seen rapid technological growth. This would be such as computers [...]
By Stephanie Olson Invasive technology, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become more and more normalized in society today with digital voice assistants like Siri, through social media to personalize your feed, through face recognition to open an iPhone, and more. AI has been used by dangerous people to [...]
By Tylar Bloch The recent tragedies in Israel have reverberated throughout the internet, as the gruesome events are being captured, uploaded, and reshared by netizens around the globe. Consider the video of an Israeli soldier being dragged out of a tank that circulated on social media. Or a post on [...]
By Jacob Aldrich A Kentucky woman recently thought she had found a once-in-a-lifetime connection with Stranger Things star Dacre Montgomery after apparently meeting with the star on an online forum. But she was dismayed when she found out she had been scammed, and even worse: she had left her husband [...]
By Jasmine London-Thomas It is interesting to know how much the internet has changed during the past 20 years. I am a part of the generation of kids who basically saw the internet blow up to what we know it is today. One of my favorite memories as a kid [...]
