Instagrams Double Standard Community Standards

Instagram, the photo-sharing platform who’s many users have come to have a love/hate relationship with. With over 150 million users at the end of 2013, Instagram is a well-known, often controversial social network. As with any online community…

The woman that I’ve been seeing, Samantha, she’s an operating system

Why are people spending hours on their smartphone and social media? It is because they feel lonely. According to a study, lonely people spend more time on Facebook than non-lonely people. People who are shy and…

Professions Over Appearance

Society has the reputation to categorise people into certain stereotypes on first impressions. A person who has stretchers, black make up and Doc Martens is identified as goth and possibly an aspiring tattoo artist, a Caucasian female that wears pink and has blonde hair is seen…

The Transformation from #Thinspo to #Fitspo

Social media has changed the modern day stereotype of an attractive woman from #thinspo to #fitspo. Trends have completely transformed from flab to abs. Women in particular no longer look to unrealistic 6ft something leggy blondes on the catwalk for…

Rape Jokes: #awkward!

It’s an issue that comes up again and again, spurred by journalists and social commentators alike. Can rape jokes ever be funny?

Rape: A topic that, in reality, isn’t pleasant to talk about. But it is something that happens, predominantly towards women.

German Airbus A320 disaster supports ‘reactionary theory’

On March the 24th of this year, the world was rocked by the mass homicide/suicide of German Airbus A320 co-pilot Andrea Lubitz. After encouraging his fellow pilot to leave the cockpit, Lubitz set upon a course of action that will…

The truth behind nothing

What better way to describe the excellent era of 90s sitcoms than with distinct solo sampled bass synthesizer riffs. Don’t know what I am talking about? Perhaps “no soup for you!” or “happy Festivus!” will ring a bell. If Seinfeld did not come to mind then sit tight because you are in…

Bonnie Prime Minister Cameron and the Jacobites of 1743

If I said the Jacobites of the 1743 uprising in Scotland could impact United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron’s 2015 campaign, would you believe me? Until the latest release of leaked Sony emails I would not have believed it…

From Postcards to Insta-Posts

Since the industrial revolution, traveling the world while keeping in contact with loved ones has become easier than ever before. In today’s connected world many travellers keep in contact with home using platforms such as Facebook, Skype, Instagram, and Wordpress, as opposed…

Double Standards on Terrorism

The application of the word “terrorist’’ is extremely subjective. We’ve been told for years, not directly perhaps, by governments and the media that terrorists are Muslim. A special type of person, with dark skin, a name we struggle to pronounce and deep roots usually in the…

PETA: The organisation with more publicity stunts than results

What’s more important — making news or making a change? This is something PETA should ask themselves next time they launch their next campaign. From naked bodies to holocaust comparisons, PETA has never been shy when it…

The Cap and Hawkeye Take Heat

It’s 2015 and we’re fighting back at sexist comments to fictional characters. Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans may have severely damaged their latest Marvel movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, with an off-handed joke. The actors responded poorly to the Digital Spy interviewer…

Edward Snowden, not a Foe(den)

Edward Snowden: some say traitorous terrorist, others say unparalleled hero of the modern age (and if you don’t know who he is, do us a favour and just stay under the rock you live in). Snowden is one of, if not the, most influential whistleblower in recent history. He…

Can “IT” win back your trust?

It has been shown all around Australia, wherever it is on TV, before-movies advertisements, or Internet. It has impressed lots of people, and become very controversial at the same time. It is TV-led brand campaign which Qantas has released, called “Welcome Home”.