Recently, I was highly surprised by something that the internet decides to turn into a meme. That something was the “Mannequin Challenge”. This challenge involves a group of people who freeze themselves in different poses while doing different activities. One person will be going through the scene and taking a video of it, as if the time has stopped for that minute. There is an epic background...

On Valentine’s Day, I stopped into my favorite café, Alfred Coffee, on my way to campus. Something was different this time – at the entrance of the café, there were huge buckets of yellow roses and people handing out a single rose to each person coming into the café. I accepted the rose with a smile but slight confusion; at closer glance, I saw the tag dangling from the stem of the rose. On...

There are some universally shared internet experiences: googling yourself, losing track of at least 30 minutes chasing down images of cats/monkeys/children, and frustratingly waiting for a uniterruptive 30 seconds YouTube advertisement to finish for a 10 second clip of a monkey washing a cat while a child laughs (we call this a digital hat trick).

The ability that online viewing gives...

Never has social media played a larger role in the political arena than it did during the 2016 Presidential Election. Social’s mainstream presence on major policy and political platforms during the campaigns sparked my personal interest how its use can alter campaign strategies and ultimately the outcomes of elections.

Today,...

Cinemagraphy was defined as “living images” by Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck, who first started creating cinemagraphs in 2011. Visually, cinemagraphs are images with subtle movements. They are usually displayed in a GIF format, which will loop forever. In this way, cinmagraph encourages viewers to stare at it and engage with it.

More and more cinemagraphs are seen on social media for...

Social media has become one of the most important elements of running a business. A successful Instagram can drive a massive amount of traffic to a website and Facebook can take customer service to the next level. The thing many business may not know is that poorly run social media channels can negatively affect their business and the legitimacy of their brand. Here are my top four social...

For the first time ever, parents are able to choose the school they think best fits their child’s needs. Well, people have been able to choose before as long as the schools were within their district. But now, parents have the ability to pick any school they want, not just settle for the public school next to their residence, or even the private institution that’s in their price range....

Watch out Chloe Bridgewater, my son is coming for you! Well, not really. He has no desire to work at Google. But like you, he is seven and wants a job in the digital space…he’s just not as sophisticated as you are.

Let me introduce you to my son. The best way to describe him is Dennis the Menace meets MacGyver. He gets into a lot of trouble but always has a plan to get out of almost...