Communications Major

We’re witnessing the stirrings of a national popular movement aimed at defeating the policies of the president.

Gab, a social media network built like a hybrid of Twitter and Reddit, bans very little and has become a conservative bunker of sorts.

Apple is reportedly planning to introduce a number of new and redesigned emojis as part of a new operating system for iPads and iPhones. Gone will be the revolver emoji, replaced with a squirt gun.

Donald Trump owns a ton of domains. Or more accurately, The Trump Organization does. A little while back this writer obtained the full list of around 3,200 and decided to sort through them in order to find out which ones are being used, which aren’t, and to see if there’s anything of note hidden in there.

The investigation reveals that the Trump Organization is awash in half-baked impulses, poor management, little-to-no planning and is more concerned with its own vanity than any sort of substance or quality. In other words, it’s par for the course.

Livestreaming has a long history of use as a powerful medium for accountability.

We construct precisely contoured echo chambers of affirmation that turn conviction into zeal, passion into fury, disagreements with the other side into the demonization of it.

As more tech firms employ their own editing staffs, they are being viewed as something less than news organizations, but more than simple reflections of their growing audiences.

Whoops! A so-called "twitter rally" in support of the President quickly turned into a Trump "bash".

Fake news is actually really easy to spot -- if you know how. Consider this your New Media Literacy Guide.

Vine was a place for people with talents across different disciplines — it allowed artists-slash-comedians-slash-musicians to flourish.

The ban against Mr. Yiannopoulos, a technology editor at the conservative news site Breitbart and known by his Twitter handle, @Nero, follows a campaign of prolonged abuse against Leslie Jones, a comedian and co-star of the recently released “Ghostbusters” movie. The film and its stars have come under fire from various parts of the internet for months, after it was first revealed that the reboot of the 1984 film would feature an all-female cast.

Ms. Jones in particular has borne the brunt of the online abuse in recent days, especially since the release of “Ghostbusters” in the United States on Friday. Hundreds of anonymous Twitter commenters hurled racist and sexist remarks at the star’s Twitter account, rallied and directed by Mr. Yiannopoulos this week.

The Internet never forgets—or lets things go.

Moments after journalist Jarrett Hill observed that portions of Melania Trump’s opening night speech at the Republican National Convention were nearly identical to those spoken by Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Twitter users jumped on the apparent plagiarism.

Far from becoming irrelevant in the digital age, libraries in New York City and around the nation are thriving: adding weekend and evening hours; hiring more librarians and staff; and expanding their catalog of classes and services to include things like job counseling, coding classes and knitting groups.

The average person spends more time on Facebook than any other leisure activity surveyed by the government except watching TV and movies.