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Beyond the Algorithm: The Art of Linguistic Evasion on Social Media
Information dissemination on the internet has undoubtedly evolved from a technological challenge to a contentious, political, and justice-oriented issue. In simpler times, web designers and developers achieved the best ways to code and display text and images online. It is beyond that now, when conglomerates are developing technology to automatically filter and selectively display information…
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HTML: A New Medium
I learned HTML around 2006, when I was in middle school. The origins of my interest stemmed from graphic design and being inspired by young, amateur web developers who built their own websites to showcase their work. The World Wide Web at the time was at the dawn of revolutionary change in the form of…
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Ka’Talk Me: The rise of KakaoTalk in South Korea and the implications of modern information technologies and internet infrastructure
On October 15th, 2022, the South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk suffered a catastrophic outage from a server fire, leading to a multi-day blackout. The aftershocks of this disruption were widespread. Beyond the damage of some 32,000 servers (Byun), services like online payments and ride hailing were halted for nearly all Kakao app users, accounting for…
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Maximum Views: Analyzing Twitch role-play live stream content through language
On April 15th, 69 days after the launch of the latest iteration of NoPixel, a massive video game server, the popular subreddit Livestreamfail banned all Grand Theft Auto V role play (GTAV RP) clip submissions for two weeks. This was quite literally a controversial decision, given that the announcement received a near equal amount of upvotes and downvotes.…