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The Cultured Wolverine | Season 2: Episode 4 | Social Entertainment

February 10, 2023

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello and welcome back to the Cultured Wolverine, the arts and culture podcast at Utah Valley University. This week, host Meg McKellar is joined by Natalie Black from the Health and Wellness podcast. Together, they discuss the way that we interact with social media and how it has changed over the years. To keep up […]

Free speech discussions on-campus

April 13, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Speakers came together on campus to convene on the importance of free speech on college campuses. Over the course of three sessions, the Center for Constitutional Studies hosted speakers from across the country who spoke on March 24, to students on a variety of topics. Including the history of free speech on campuses, the importance […]

Linebacker blitzed by virtual prank

January 28, 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutes Whatever the truth ends up to be, Te’o just had his virtual world rocked by reality. If he crafted this hoax or if he was the target of an evil genius, life for the Notre Dame star just became a lot more real.

UVUSA VP accused of sexism

March 9, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes Outrage recently erupted over tweets from a member of the Executive Council of UVUSA, which many found sexist and offensive. Many are asking if this is an appropriate way for a representative to behave, especially when he represents a campus that is 43 percent female.   Joe Jursic, current vice president of Student Life, tweeted […]

Piracy is bad, censorship is worse

January 18, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Twitter feeds are buzzing with chatter, hashtagged with words like SOPA, PIPA, censorship and blackout. Wikipedia, with estimated daily web traffic numbering in the tens of millions, was dark Wednesday in protest of current legislature working its way through the US House Judiciary Committee. The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act […]

Exerpts from a Wasted Life

November 16, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Excerpts from a wasted life – Twitter edition by Rob Steffen http://twitter.com/finalfantastic #followfriday @RPG @Wizard @Dungeons @Dragons @Gaming @Tabletop @Characters @japan @MMO @cat @wow @warhammer @fps @zelda @lonely the poster fell down into my fan. tybalt iii is dead. goodbye tybalt iii. but i’ll always have my moment with donny… found a poster of a […]

The power of Twitter by @BigBags

September 21, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sure, you can use Twitter to find out what Britney Spears thinks about her lunch, or who Ashton Kutcher plans to draft next on his fantasy football team, but if you think that’s all it can be used for, you’re wrong. Twitter is so much more than a gateway to bombard yourself with the random […]