When Shawnize Burns uploads a YouTube video, she can expect anywhere from 60 to 6,000 views.These numbers are light-years away from the views earned by major vloggers, but Burns, a senior sociology major,...
It’s not every day that your voice goes viral, but for Kent State alumna Therese “Tee” Boyich it’s a feat she is about to experience all over again.After recording background vocals for the theme...
Kent State's School of Communication Studies will host a Global Issues Forum on Human Trafficking: A Global and Local Epidemic, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 in the Moulton Hall Ballroom.According to...
Winning an award for the first time based on research wasn’t something Leisa Gibbons, an assistant professor at Kent State's School of Library and Information Systems, expected. That is, until she was...
In the past, whenever I’d hear YouTube, I thought of silly viral videos like ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ or ‘The Annoying Orange’. I never used to think of YouTube as a place to go for news, but...
Shamers, you know who you are. You’re those people who hate on another person’s body type, lifestyle choices, physical appearance or character traits.If I were to describe someone to you, chances are...
Federal Bureau of Investigation director, James Comey, recently said at the University of Chicago Law School that the “era of viral videos” is largely to blame for recent spikes in violent crime across...
If you haven’t already seen the video on YouTube or heard about it on Twitter, comedian Nicole Arbour published a video last Thursday titled “Dear Fat People.”The video Arbour claims to be satire,...
Contour [kon too r] n. the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.Once upon a time, contour lines only denoted thoughts of a thin line drawing. I must admit...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers claiming to work on behalf of Islamic State militants seized control of the Twitter and YouTube sites of the military's U.S. Central Command on Monday. The Pentagon swiftly...
Jenna Marbles — remember her? The hilarious YouTube sensation isn’t afraid to say exactly what’s on her mind. She exploded on the scene in 2010 with her video, “How to trick people into thinking...
Personal forms of media and social media are standards in today’s generation. They are more readily accessible than a half-century ago and more advanced than even a decade ago. Much of this has to do...
