Natalia Fallas '14 reviews Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Bailey show, a potpurri of speeches, audience interaction and social media integration that, while loads of fun, had its share of off-putting moments.
With new technologies revolutionizing the way students socialize on college campuses, a bevy of undergraduate entrepreneurs at Cornell hope their recently launched website will become an influential part of social media in the future.
Ithacans met the news that a city police officer had been shot with a mixture of horror and shock, taking to social media in the early morning hours Friday to find a sense of community in their collective fear and condolences.
"Woke up, got out of bed / dragged a comb, across my head." That Beatles song was made real by Youtube, which pieced together a day in the life of 80,000 people in over 190 countries to produce Life in a Day, screened at Cornell Cinema on Wednesday. Charley Du '16 was surprisingly unmoved by the ambitious project, but found inspiration in the pre-screening talk by Youtube architect Mike Solomon '00.
GIFs have returned. Not only are they entertaining, but GIFs represent a form of expression entirely unique to the Internet, Emily Greenberg '13 affirms.
Last weekend, dozens of Cornellians and Ithaca College students joined 10,000 other young Americans in D.C. for Power Shift 2011 — a conference geared towards environmental activism. Forty-one years after the first Earth Day, the conference’s turnout and growing youth support for the environmental movement helped restore some faith in our generation’s ability to care about more than our Facebook news feeds.
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