Online Shaming: Fighting Social Injustice or Mob Mentality?
The Internet has become a powerful weapon of shaming the wrongdoings of the public with rapid sharing results. In recent years, Internet users have been taking social injustices into their…
MP and Sussex Professor collide over tide
Author: Hannah Richards Our very own Professor Paul Nightingale gave UKIP MP Douglas Carswell a quick science lesson after he criticised his Brexit analogy on Twitter. Nightingale, in support of…
The Digital Footprint: Our right to disappear?
Channel 4 have recently debuted the show ‘Hunted’, which tasks 14 fugitives with going on the run in the United Kingdom for 28 days. While on the run they’ll be…
Political Highlights
Party conference season swept the nation last week – although it was rather more sober than most students may imagine a party to be. Satirical Tweets from the week: @David_Scameron…
Glued to our screens?
The 21st Century Real Virtual World Jonathan Stefanni-Machado Apple’s highly anticipated iPhone 5 was released on 21 September in the UK, and despite the absence of a midnight launch, it…
#Socialstudents get their say on lectures
Media studies lecturers throughout the country are urging their students to live-tweet during lectures. Students are being encouraged to discuss their subjects and hone their social networking skills. Universities including…
Sussex student needs tweets to win scholarship
In a bid to get a summer scholarship with one of the largest advertising agencies, Jamie Ivory has created a Twitter account for which he needs followers. The 22 year…
World wide warning
An anonymous internet blogger has become the first person ever to receive a court order via Twitter. A High Court judge served the order on the unknown Twitter user for…
Facebook 50 times more popular than journals
Figures have revealed the web surfing habits of Sussex students. Facebook was the most popular website, accounting for nearly 50 times as much web traffic as the academic journal sites…