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Boston has made it through an unimaginably horrible week. For five days, from the explosions on Marathon Monday, which claimed the lives of three innocent young people, until Friday night’s …
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PETA kills. Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? However, that is the crime of which Nathan Winograd is accusing the organization in a recent Huffington Post contribution. Winograd, director of …
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For most college-aged students, there was never such a thing as “social media” when they were growing up. It wasn’t until the rise of Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and now countless …
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When it started in 2003, the social network LinkedIn was a resource for middle-aged professionals networking for employment opportunities. Ten years later, LinkedIn has over 200 million users and …
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During a staff meeting several weeks ago, one of the writers (Naomi Spungen) told The Quad about a new subreddit called explainlikeIAmA. In it, you are able to chose a subject …
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Amidst disaster and destruction, Twitter users will never fail to find the humor. @HURRICANESANDY’s sass brought laughs to the October hurricane, and @Hurricane_Irene of 2011 had attracted 25,000 followers with …
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A November 2012 study found that 98% of 18-24 year olds use social media. The same study determined that Americans, on average, spend about 7.6 hours per month on online …
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In July 2011, Aaron Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly downloading millions of documents from JSTOR. On September 24, 2012, he pleaded not guilty to these …
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The social network Vine launched last Monday. Vine is an iOS (-only, for now) app that allows users to upload endlessly repeating, six-second long videos (Vines? Is what we’re calling …
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