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An event organized by a fact-checking group to help people spot and report suspected fake news, in Taipei, Taiwan on Dec. 21, 2019. As Taiwan gears up for a major election this week, officials and researchers worry that China is experimenting with social media manipulation to sway the vote. (I-Hwa Cheng/The New York Times)

No, Digital Media Has Not Made Culture More Accessible

By Stephen Yang | January 22, 2020

Taiwan, like most postcolonial countries, still struggles to challenge the global hierarchy of designing and manufacturing.

YANDAVA | Don’t Discount the Scholars of YouTube

Sun columnist Ruby Que '20's 'Here Is A Puddle' will be showing at Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Dec. 12 to Dec. 14.

QUE | The Perpetual Quest to be 'Good Enough'

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BONO | How 'Super Mario' Unknowingly Fought Bots

The Arts Department Reflects on Juice Wrld's Death

YANG | The 2010s Is the Decade of Electronic Music

By Stephen Yang | December 9, 2019

As electronic music is often associated with the newfound idea of digital agency, it inadvertently speaks to the rhetoric of digital utopianism

GUEST ROOM | The Nostalgia of Gen Z Television

By Sarah Bastos | December 5, 2019

The golden age of television is changing to accommodate the maturation of Gen Z.

YANDAVA | My Seven Favorite Books of the Decade

By Ramya Yandava | December 4, 2019

Here is a list of seven books published between 2010 and 2019 that I vaguely remember enjoying or that had some kind of formative influence on me, in no particular order.

SIMS | Comfort in the Void with ‘The Good Place’

By Katie Sims | December 3, 2019

‘The Good Place’ makes it exciting and interesting to be flailing in the foam pit of uncertainty.

QUE | Don’t Discount the Merit of Including a Trigger Warning

By Ruby Que | December 2, 2019

View Discretion Advised: The content in this article is potentially triggering.

BONO | Choosing the Top Video Game Ads of 2019

By Olivia Bono | November 25, 2019

Listen. How can a silly untitled game beat the heavy-hitting Death Stranding? Untitled Goose Game, the 3-D indie treasure where the goal is simply to cause as much chaos as possible, has gotten more traction than any other game on this list.