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An illustration of a sun shining on a person water a growing tree with deep roots. The background features faint words in different Indigenous languages such as Squamish and Cree

September/October 2024 / Society

Social Media Is Helping Bring Indigenous Languages Back from the Brink

September 30, 2024October 7, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

Government funding is dwindling. TikTok and Instagram are filling the gap

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Does Being Called “Timmy” Make Me Less Manly?

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 - by Timothy Caulfield

Online trolls think it’s cool to attack my masculinity. But “man up” is the lamest advice ever

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Kamala Harris’s Campaign Is Only Meme Deep. Can It Be Sustained?

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

The danger in trying to engineer viral moments

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Journalists Are Becoming Cogs in the Outrage Machine

July 25, 2024July 25, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

As the industry decays, social media has become a go-to place for tips and quotes. That’s a problem

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June 2024 / Media

Why the Taliban Love Social Media

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 - by Soraya Amiri

The extremist group’s strategy to normalize its rule in Afghanistan

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Me, My Selfies, and I

February 29, 2024February 29, 2024 - by Erika Thorkelson

Those of us on the line between Gen X and millennial are watching our identities shift and age in a way no previous generation has

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The North Runs on Facebook

February 28, 2024March 21, 2024 - by Eva Holland

At twenty, the social media giant might seem old school. For many of us up here, it’s still the place to be

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A photo illustration of two versions of a bust of Greek historian Herodotus. On the left, the bust is in its original state fading into a dark background. On the right, the bust has gone through the process of yassification as if using a beauty filter, surrounded by heart-shaped like buttons against a blue and pink gradient background.

Social Media Is Warping History

February 1, 2024February 1, 2024 - by Colin Horgan

#History is huge on TikTok, where counterintuitive takes flatter users into thinking they know the “real” story

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