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The Crimson White

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The Crimson White

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The Crimson White

The speed of misinformation

Sarah Howard November 10, 2015

The World-Wide Web was invented in 1990, with Facebook first launched in 2004 and Twitter following two years later. The internet’s rapid advancement and the creation of social media has changed how...

Cyber crime: UA technology responds to new threats

Cyber crime: UA technology responds to new threats

Patrick Smith September 28, 2015

With the rise of the Internet has come a rise in a relatively new form of crime, crime that does not entail the use of guns, knives or other traditional weaponry. Technology has elicited an expanse of...

Rhetorical persuasion lost in Internet culture

Joe Puchner July 15, 2015

About seven score and twelve years ago, a man was president who nearly always carried with him a set of Shakespeare’s plays, which helped this man absorb the power of rhetorical persuasion.This man,...

Tumblr fosters community through multimedia posts

Tumblr fosters community through multimedia posts

Becca Murdoch March 4, 2015

For those who spent last Wednesday evening fervently debating the color of a now-infamous striped dress, one blogging platform is to blame: Tumblr.Many viral Internet photos, memes and television fan theories...

Internet media doesn’t aid democracy

Evan Ward February 8, 2012

As citizens of the 21st century, we have never held back when lauding the Internet as a democratic force.  Surely, we believe something that has destroyed so many barriers to information flow will do...

A Collective Consciousness

John Davis October 15, 2010

This past Tuesday, I witnessed something extraordinary. No, not the Rangers clinch against the Rays or a dormitory hallway covered in fire extinguisher chemicals (though both certainly happened), but rather...

University clamps down on piracy

Bethany Blair October 3, 2010

The Office of Information Technology sent out an e-mail Sept. 24 informing students of the consequences and qualifications for illegal file sharing on university networks. Mandated by the Higher Education...

Campus residents express Wi-Fi concerns

Brittney Knox September 23, 2010

Cassy Kaplan sits in her dorm room in Burke East with her laptop tethered to the wall with an Ethernet cable because, she says, the cable makes the Internet more efficient. “Sometimes the Internet is...

Online capabilities move to classroom

William Evans March 12, 2010

The digital age has revolutionized the availability and distribution of information. Recently, this same concept has reached the classroom as well. An inevitable outgrowth of the digital age is that colleges...

Internet should remain neutral

Will Tucker February 12, 2010

Thursday was a key anniversary in Iran, and today is no different. First, on Feb. 11, 1979, the Shah’s regime fell in the face of the Islamic Revolution. In brutal street fights in the country’s...