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How social media affects body image

How social media affects body image

Madison Crain March 7, 2016

Obsessing over editing photos can be easy with all the applications now available. Some social media editing programs claim that they can do anything from clearing blemishes to whitening teeth to shaving...

Social media reacts: Alabama 14, Clemson 14 at halftime.

Social media reacts: Alabama 14, Clemson 14 at halftime.

CW Staff January 11, 2016

We asked how y'all were doing during halftime of Alabama's contest with Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, when it was tied 14-14. Some were good! Others were... less...

Cotton Bowl Roundup, Day 1: Alabama arrives

Cotton Bowl Roundup, Day 1: Alabama arrives

CW Staff December 26, 2015

The Alabama football team arrived in Dallas today ahead of its semifinal Cotton Bowl matchup against Michigan State on New Year's Eve. The team practiced for 90 minutes in shells at a local 6A high school's...

New App links college students together

Aaron Bonner November 11, 2015

Social networks are huge, linking hundreds of thousands of people together every day from around the world, but few focus on building a stronger community among its users. A new app called MXO Interests...

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...

Social media fosters loneliness among youth

Social media fosters loneliness among youth

Sean McFetridge November 2, 2015

It is fascinating: the constant desire and fraught feelings of people to get out of their own heads. There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Learning how to be alone is something that...

LinkedIn offers online networking resource

Becca Murdoch April 12, 2015

For the many students hunting for job opportunities ahead of graduation, a website founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman may be able to help. With over 347 million members in more than 200 countries, LinkedIn...

Spring breakers should have gone phone-free

Carolyn Duke March 30, 2015

For almost three whole months, the entire University looked forward to the exciting or relaxing spring break we just finished. Many students were enthusiastic to leave for spring break and yet many students...

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...

Rights in retrograde on US campuses

Frank D. LoMonte February 25, 2015

All around us, the world is experiencing a renaissance of rights. Less than 30 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court said it was constitutional for the police to arrest a gay couple for having sex in their...

Opposing beliefs should be equally respected

TJ Parks February 22, 2015

My attitude toward free speech was heavily influenced by my Uncle Doc, a friend of the family who was very vocal with his opinions, many of which ran opposite to my own. For a long time I never said anything...

Cyber-bullying a universal problem

Mary Catherine Connors February 18, 2015

Katherine Webb-McCarron is The University of Alabama’s own Kate Middleton. She’s beautiful, is a model and has been in the public eye ever since that fateful football game in which an announcer made...