With the increase of new phone applications being developed and as social media overtakes the daily lives of people, phone users are becoming more wary of how much information applications and websites truly have access to. “[Online] privacy is important to users, as...
While interning at the United States House of Representatives, I researched legislative bills for Congress. In addition, I established a professional understanding of the research that goes into creating public policy and submitted two unique writing pieces into the...
Social media is a popular place for people to interact with each other by commenting on friends' stories and pictures or posting something themselves. There are many benefits by using social media, such as gaining new knowledge, meeting buddies, and even getting...
As Sears filed for bankruptcy in November this year and Amazon announced that it was going to choose two locations for the homes of its second headquarters, the two businesses could not seem any more different. Sears did announce a partnership with Amazon in May, one...
Sexual experimentation now takes place in a technological world where naked images can easily be shared without consent while leaving life-altering consequences for victims. Nonconsensual pornography is defined as the distribution of sexually graphic images of...
For a moment, a breeze sliced through the otherwise hot and sunny day, swirling in and out of the branches above us and ruffling the leaves that provided shade to me and my family. Meanwhile, our picnic mat sat firmly on the ground, weighted by the heaping feast of...
Today, phones, television, and electronics are used by almost everyone worldwide, especially teenagers. But is having the freedom of finding anything on the internet beneficial to us? Although it’s nice to have access to all the information in the world in your...
Did the title of this article make you click on it? If yes, then great! Consider this your first step to becoming a famous YouTuber: Clickbait. Joking aside, YouTube’s popularity as a platform for entertainment has grown exponentially within the past couple of years....
The vote to repeal net neutrality has teenagers fuming, and for valid reasons. A world of opportunities provided by the internet in its current state has been swept out from under us. There is a feeling of powerlessness amongst teenagers. Even with contacting their...
The word on the tips of everyone's tongue today? Net neutrality. There's a foreboding feeling that comes with the word, like when you tell a secret you know you shouldn't have. Because that's exactly what net neutrality is: the secret to knowledge, to democracy, to...
