Communication, Culture, and Technology
ABSTRACT As technology has made the global community more connected, actors such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have taken advantage of social media to raise global awareness and funds. Through a...
I spent this summer working for an American NGO in Port-au-Prince. During my time in Haiti’s capital city I fell in love with the people and culture that make this...
Last year, the small, rural town of Owego in upstate New York was devastated when the nearby river overflowed its banks. A blogger from Owego, Abbey Hendrickson, took to Twitter...
It was recently fashion week. Which usually doesn’t coincide with my studies much except for the fact that much time gets wasted looking at backstage shots of long lashes and...
My path toward vegetarianism was well-established by the time I left for college. For more than a decade now I have eschewed the consumption of animals. Through spats of veganism...
In this podcast, Hanna Woodburn examines an incident the HitRECord community is calling “Girl, Interrupted.”
An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. David Foster Wallace...
‘Only those with no memory insist on their originality’ -Coco Chanel I recently read a blog post by Denver-based artist and graphic designer Cole Sletten wherein he comments on the...
I recently bought a new pair of glasses. Yes, my second pair in a year, but one of my justifications for the splurge was that the company I purchased them...
The protests, demonstrations, and uprisings that transpired in the Middle East earlier this year, referred to as the Arab Spring, were a groundswell reaction to many social maladies taking place...