Tagged - Internet
celebrities
We need to talk about parasocial relationships
Parasocial relationships were once seen as harmless. Now we're seeing how obsessing over a public figure’s life can turn harmful.
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EMP blamed for internet wipe out
On Thursday, an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) was detonated in the 3M stacks within Rush Rhees Library, effectively shutting down the Internet on River Campus.
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The human beauty of the internet
The world wide web is perhaps the most complete repository of human strangeness to ever exist.
COVID-19
Students’ complicated relationship with WiFi
Students often joke about renaming the University’s WiFi network from “UR_Connected” to “UR_Not_Connected,” and I’m beginning to understand why.
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The role of Facebook moderators during a pandemic
Of course, even before the pandemic, Facebook was a key platform for UR students public discourse. The oldest UR pages have been around for over a decade.
Internet
A tour of UR’s best meme pages
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of meme sources in no particular order.
