“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Reading Response

Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making us Stupid?” appeared in the The Atlantic Monthly and discussed his theory that the internet is rewiring the way that the human mind operates. He takes a more skeptical approach to the Internet and its…

Anonymous: The Hacktivist Social Justice Movement

FOMO

The Fear Of Missing Out and how it is evolving in today’s digital age

In today’s digital age, everyone is always on, always hooked up to the internet. No life is truly private as this new habit of ‘sharing’ has spread throughout society. As people continue recording their everyday life and…

The evolution of Sephora.com

Sephora.com was first captured on January 9, 1997. The cosmetic and fragrance company, Sephora, in 1997 is drastically different as a business from what it is today.

The Evolution of Apple.com

Within the past few decades, Apple has transformed how the world operates, interacts, and communicates by introducing us to unimaginable technology that has changed our everyday lives. With the help of Apple, I was able to use the Internet Archive to trace the history of Apple.com…

How Computer Algorithms Affect our Internet Experience- A Level

After learning about algorithms in my New Media class, I was curious to see how much they really affect our everyday internet use. I could not imagine that they really had that much of an impact and even if they did it…

Hayao Miyazaki: Corruption of The Anime Industry

Evolution of YouTube’s interface over the year’s

There are various useful websites we can use to find out how the Internet looked like in the 1990’s, one of them is called the “Internet Archive: Wayback Machine”. It is very helpful and easy to use since all that you need to do type in the URL…