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-17 posts tagged "media"
Caitlin Brannigan | Wednesday, September 7, 2022
In 2016, 15-time Grammy award-winning singer Alicia Keys gave up wearing makeup. “I realized I became addicted to it; I didn’t feel comfortable without it,” Keys said. After years of adorning a full face of makeup almost every day, she felt that the pressure to constantly look perfect took a toll on her self-esteem: “I
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, September 28, 2021
“We don’t think that murder is funny, we don’t think that people being killed is funny — we just think that we’re funny.” The very first podcast I ever listened to regularly was “My Favorite Murder,” a comedy podcast that falls into the popular and highly lucrative family of true crime podcasts. It is one
David Henry | Thursday, September 23, 2021
9/11 was a tragedy. Many lost their lives and many more suffered indirectly through the loss of loved ones and the psychological stress caused by the event. Surely it is an event worth discussing, being the first attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, but 20 years later, why does it still hold so much
Renee Yaseen | Monday, April 26, 2021
When I log onto social media, my typical feed consists of an ample mix of my friends’ pictures, memes and political content. Now more than ever, we use social media to get, spread and react to news. This can be a good thing: social media allows ordinary people to share their viewpoints and perspectives. We
Claire Reid | Monday, March 22, 2021
Matthew Turek, program manager of the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office, discussed media manipulation and developing strategies for detecting falsified media in a lecture Friday as part of the Ten Years Hence speaker series, sponsored by the O’Brien-Smith Leadership Program. Turek holds a doctorate in computer science from
Lucy Lynch | Friday, November 17, 2017
The Gender Relations Center presented a panel discussion about “Violence in Media” in LaFortune Student Center on Thursday night. The panel explored the portrayal of violence in scenes from both television and film, and included Mary Kearney, an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, as well as director of the gender studies
Mike Donovan | Friday, September 8, 2017
This is a satire. Relax. Listen up America. Brace yourselves. The knowledge bombs are coming. They’ll rain down on the soft, fluffy snowbanks of the mainstream media, #disrupting the liberal status quo and #leveraging a new era of truth in the journalistic swamp. The Associated Press — a sadistic institution bent on wiping American Exceptionalism,
Nick Laureano | Tuesday, February 14, 2017
If you watched the Super Bowl for the commercials but don’t consider yourself a “car person,” then you might have found yourself wondering: What’s an Alfa Romeo? It’s a car, but the full answer to that question isn’t quite so simple. Perhaps as a function of its Italian heritage — with the racing credentials, beauty
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, February 1, 2017
The first 12 days of President Donald Trump’s term in office have been marked by a flurry of executive orders and nationwide protests. In response, NDVotes organized a Tuesday installment of its Pizza, Pop and Politics series and brought two University professors to discuss Trump’s time in office thus far, focusing on his consolidation of
Neil Joseph | Tuesday, January 24, 2017
On President Trump’s first day in office, it seemed that he did little to deviate from the person and politician that he is in order to become a more dignified and calm president. His speech, which was one of the shorter inauguration speeches in history, became a populist rallying cry, conveying a vision of a