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. Read More
emp
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. Read More
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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. Read More
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. Read More
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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. Read More
Internet
A tour of UR’s best meme pages
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of meme sources in no particular order. Read More
