Digital reality and social media can release a person’s ability of self-expression and challenge people to communicate well. New Media, according to our Lievrouw reading, involves reappropriation, networking, ubiquity and user participation. The brilliant Benjamin Bratton of UCSD critiques social…
What if we allow surveillance?
Ed-op: Why We Care About Privacy By Anna North Noah Dyer, a professor at Tempe’s University of Advancing Technology ,mentions that we have privacy too much. He wanted to live without privacy, so that he paid a camera crew to…
Failed invention: the selfie brush phone case
Nowadays, selfie becomes a fashionable way to take photos, and it plays more and more indispensable role in our daily life. Selfie is no longer used exclusively for one person.When people meet their friends, they would like to take the group-selfie ,…
Kim’s Strategy of Propaganda
I am from South Korea. I lived in there for 23 years. I have not only heard of North Korea plenty of times but also seen lots of images of reality of North Korea. I conclude that Jungeun Kim, the…
What makes Chanel a successful fashion brand?
The fashion brand–Chanel, is easily recognized by everyone all over the world. In last year report, Chanel was labeled as the most popular luxury brand in China. Also, it kept being ranked as one of the top luxury brands in…
Externalizing Private Experiences Addiction
This TIME article poses a good point about the addiction of externalizing private experience regarding the recent hacking issues that has caused internet security to come under scrutiny. Pressure on girls to take sexy selfies comes out of a culture that…
Do we have Privacy?
In today’s digital age, when someone says ‘cloud‘ we typically associate it with iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive. The cloud simply refers to the applications and services that are run on the internet so it also includes movie/TV streaming services that…
New Era of Communcation
Have you ever dreamed of having telepathic powers, or to be able to control objects without moving a finger? An International group of Neuroscientists and robotics engineers successfully demonstrated a brain-to-brain communication between humans. This experiment was conducted “to find…
why is free speech in danger at universities? (Op-ed)
As I was reading opinion section of CNN, there was an interesting title. “Is free speech at risk at our universities?” It was posted yesterday which was September 4th. As a university student, it caught my attention and I read…