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Image Description: Two men laying down on their side surrounded by technology *MSM stands for men who have sex with men For MSM, the internet can be both the best and worst place. On one hand, it offers an anonymous place where one can express their sexuality, learn more, and meet others whether they are […]
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Image description : three telephones, two connected together by their cords and one with its cord trailing off. Just over a year ago, I watched one of my best friends step off the National Express opposite The Four Candles and ran to hug her for the first time in my life. This was a girl who […]
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As some of the most prolific users of social media and the internet, young people in the UK have essentially limitless access to information and may not fully appreciate it as a privilege. However, many developing countries have an Internet uptake in the range of 0-9% of the population with data costing a significant proportion […]
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Love it or hate it, Oxlove and Oxfess are at the heart of Oxford’s student culture. Since the creation of Oxlove in 2017, followed later that year by the creation of Oxfess, the pages have grown in popularity to become the envy of similar university pages across the country, surpassing even Crushbridge, the Cambridge equivalent […]
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Imagine if you had bought $5 of Bitcoin seven years ago. Today, you would be $4.4 million richer. From its addition to the Oxford Dictionary to its recent price surpassing $3000, Bitcoin has made many news headlines. But what is Bitcoin? And will its value continue to rise? Replacing Politics with Technology Bitcoin is a […]
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The author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once wrote of his time in a Soviet gulag, “All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.” While this expression was borne out of suffering the likes of which most of us will never understand, little could […]
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TEDxOxford has grown quickly over the years: what started as a hundred people in the Keble O’Reilly in 2011 has grown to 1800 this year, and has now graduated to the New Theatre. Chris Williams, the day’s MC, highlighted this achievement in the welcome talk we received at the start of the day, alongside encouraging […]
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Oxford University IT Services declared a “major incident” this morning after a power outage at one of its data centers left a range of services offline. The affected services, which included the Nexus Web App, Mailing Lists and the University’s main website, have since been restored. “Most of the of the affected services have been brought back […]
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An investigation into Twitter activity during one of the televised US presidential debates has shown that Republican candidate Donald J. Trump’s support was boosted by support from automated ‘bots’. Although he would still have received more supportive tweets than rival Hillary Clinton (Democrats), four times as many bots endorsed him than they did Clinton. Overall, […]
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The internet has flung the doors wide open for filmmakers, film watchers, and film buffs alike. Netflix and Amazon Instant Video give us remarkably instant access to more films than ever, IMDb is always on hand to dish up shocking snap facts, and online reviews mean critics can pin down exactly what irked us about […]
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The National Union of Students (NUS) has today renewed demands for the government’s Prevent strategy to be scrapped. The fresh calls come following the publication of a Home Affairs Select Committee report on radicalisation and countering extremism. The report published this morning said that internet giants such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were “consciously failing” to […]
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Oxford has a lot of student societies but earlier this year second-year PPEist and Corpuscle Ada Pospiszyl noticed that there was no society for lovers of the iconic images we so love to share online; a requiem for a meme. She decided to rectify this by creating the Oxford Dank Memes Society, a Facebook page […]
Continue ReadingKate Bradley When I was about thirteen, I was madly into the Kaiser Chiefs. Writing that makes me feel like I’m introducing myself at an Arseholes Anonymous meeting, especially now the Chiefs’ lead singer Ricky Wilson is one of the panellists on The Voice. All the same, I loved them once, and as we look […]
Continue ReadingIn 2010, I wrote the first post on my blog. It was read by a very small number of people, mostly close friends and my parents; I didn’t even post a link to it on Facebook, unsure of how people would react. It felt, as I began to discover more about the fashion blogging community, […]
Continue ReadingThe Chinese government is taking a novel stance to social media. Rather than ban it, they are manipulating it, and with surprisingly effective results. A recent scandal involving a minor party official has shown the new strategy being adopted to deal with ‘citizen journalism’. Zhang Aihua, the party boss of a provincial industrial zone, was […]
Continue ReadingThe deal agreed by the three main parties undoubtedly heralds a new age for the British media. Some newspaper editors and Tory MPs have compared the new restrictions to Putin’s Russia or African dictatorships, the death of a free press independent of government interference. Yet all the deal includes is a plan to commission a […]
Continue ReadingImagine a scholar’s life before the Internet. They probably had to leave their rooms to avoid achieving things and their lives must have been heartbreakingly bereft of adorable cat pictures. Procrastination is now a thing of utmost ease, but the online world is not merely a space to order pizza and watch videos of […]
Continue ReadingInternet trash or a legitimate form of art? We debate the role of memes in the the world of modern art. Can I haz cheez burger? Srsly? What if Conspiracy Keanu is a Conspiracy? All great questions of our time. Great, not because of their depth, but because of their reach. The internet meme today, […]
Continue ReadingMetazen is a website dedicated to the publishing of alternative literature (‘alt lit’). This is a relatively new literary movement whose domain of choice is, largely, the internet; it’s countercultural and growing fast. Metazen‘s publications can take the form of short stories, poetry, literary cartoons, interviews or otherwise – all are new, most are unusual by […]
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