Communications Major

According to Pew, almost 1 in 10 Americans now have a dating app on their phone.

Welcome to the age of hyper-information. We're not reading less, but...

Can technology help communities become more responsive to their citizens? A report from a town that’s ahead of the curve.

Yik Yak, a social media app that serves as a local bulletin board, has proved popular especially on college campuses, but the cover of anonymity it offers allows for some unfettered nastiness.

Apparently football players aren’t the only ones looking to score this weekend during Super Bowl XLIX.

Tinder swiping was up 50 percent on Friday in the Phoenix, Ariz., area, according to the Hollywood Reporter, and messaging has increased 60 percent, signaling that people are not only on the lookout for potential matches, but actually want to see if there’s a spark beyond the right swipe.

Photographer Damon Casarez was sleeping on his parents couch after moving back home when he had the idea to document this epidemic. Subjects had student debt ranging between $10,000 to more than $100,000. Some of them, obviously, are not going to be moving out any time soon. 

Explaining the rise of the fetishized bookshelf. 

Professional photographers sound off on what it was like to shoot for the magazine entirely on iPhones.

The system of showing clothes on a runway, then selling them in stores six months later, seems increasingly irrelevant in the age of social media.

The social network is an express track for parents interested in sharing and sometimes capitalizing on the visual story line of their children’s lives.

Spending seven days learning to use, and getting used to, the Apple Watch proved to be a mostly rewarding experience.

How Google Glass went from the hottest thing in wearable tech to the Edsel of Silicon Valley.

The Internet and globalization have challenged the myth of individuality (we are all one in 7 billion), while making connecting with others easier than ever. Normcore is a blank slate and open mind—it’s a look designed to play well with others. 

One fashion magazine has gone so far as to use Google street view maps to zoom in on ordinary-looking citizens in a bland middle-America communities to define this look.