By: Christa Cain The video game industry plays a significant role in new entertainment and technological development. Today, revenues in the gaming industry exceed those of the movie and music…
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Is Censorship Worth It?
By: Jordan Kendall What is censorship? It is the suppression of ideas, images, or words that are classified as “offensive.”[1] Censorship may be used by governments or private groups to…
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Has SoundCloud’s Plug Been Pulled?
By: Michael Boehringer Recently, in the news and other media outlets, there has been a lot of talk about the future of SoundCloud. SoundCloud is a music sharing application…
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Stealing Jokes on Social Media
By: Anthony Marino Many social media users subscribe to one or more Instagram or Twitter accounts that are considered, “joke aggregate accounts.” A joke aggregate account is one that supplies…
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Super Bowl Fever: Cashing In On The Fun
The Super Bowl is coming to Phoenix. I do not intend to scalp tickets, sell T-shirts, or sit on a street corner offering soda or water for a dollar to…
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Game Critics and Commercial Bribery: the Original #gamergate Controversy
by Chris Deatherage What is Gamergate? Gamergate is the most polarizing issue in the gaming community at this time. For the un-initiated, Gamergate started as a movement against corruption…
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Feminism, the First Amendment, and #Gamergate
by Annelise Dominguez This past August, the Internet erupted when Anita Sarkeesian, a media critic, was threatened with mutilation, rape, and other physical harm in response to her video web…