Culture

By: Collin Wang Over the past twenty years, media has become an increasingly important aspect of teenagers' lives. With the invention of new technologies like smartphones and laptops, it is now easier than ever to immerse oneself in a different reality through a screen. From the moment they wake up to the moment they shut their eyes, teens are constantly immersed in media. Scrolling through social media platforms, streaming movies and television, messaging friends and family

By: Anisa Chandra Where do you spend the majority of your time? For many of us, we have what psychologists call a ‘first space’ and a ‘second space’ — the two places where we spend most of our time. Oftentimes, our first space is our home, or place of residence, while our second space is where we work. But with this framework comes the question of third spaces: places where we’re able to create community and feel accepted, but are neither at home nor at work (take, for exampl

By: Anisa Chandra This article wasn’t written with AI. That statement takes on more meaning as more of our world becomes centered on ChatGPT, Gemini, or ClaudeAI outputs. And you, dear reader, may be thinking to yourself: Why choose the harder route? Why spend hours creating a piece of media that could have been optimized, could have been done by a chatbot in a minute? To me, that’s because at the end of the day, an over-reliance on AI devalues human creativity and thinking.

By: Adam Zhou The rise of globalization and rapid digital transformations have allowed every individual voice to be amplified to levels which we have never seen before. As a result, content, no matter its level of factuality, emotive consequence, or general intent, can be spread and then consumed by anyone. At the same time, the amount and diversity of information can be learned at astronomical rates. Leaving these voices unregulated is the notion of free speech, which has b