It’s been a while. I’ll be the first to admit that. I had lowered my expectations for 2022. After making it through the confusion of 2020, I started 2021 full of motivation, determined to make positive changes. However, instead of 2021, we were presented with 2020 Volume 2. Where the evil villain is still the…
Ah, 2021. There was so much potential, but unfortunately, we experienced 2020 Volume 2. We witnessed the damaging consequences of Delta and the rising spread of Omicron. The vaccination race and the return to severe restrictions. It was a year that will once again be remembered for COVID. However, even within another challenging year, there…
Hello and welcome to Article Seven of Let’s Get Legal! We hope you enjoy today’s article, and you can find a link to the entire series at the bottom of this post! Introduction Social media platforms are a contemporary development in the eyes of the slow-moving pace of the law. Even though social media platforms…
Our lives are frozen. Although we’ve been in lockdown now for over 2 months, things have still been changing. Lockdown restrictions have constantly been changing (albeit in the harsher direction) each week as NSW aimed to get control of the COVID-19 outbreak. Although this news was disappointing and frustrating, things were still changing. Now, everything…
15 seconds. Short sentences. Images and diagrams. That’s all that our brains can consume in one sitting. The days of long articles and YouTube videos over 10 minutes are coming to an end, overtaken by memes and 10 second Tik Tok’s. This has forced content creators and writers, like me, to deeply look into what…
It’s becoming inescapable. Any person with an online presence is putting themselves at risk of ‘being cancelled’. For some, it is a wave that will pass over them, but for others, it can end their careers. Cancel culture is a modern form of ostracism in which someone is rejected and removed from certain social or…
Everything that has occurred in the world over the past three weeks has been because of one media outlet, social media. Protests, stories, opinions, debates, images and videos regarding the black lives matter movement have been shared on social media saturating many social media platforms. However, although social media makes us connected, it also divides…
My thoughts are scattered, my eyes burn, and my heart hurts. The murder of George Floyd created a shockwave that erupted tensions across the world but particularly in American communities. I can’t put all my perspectives into one, long, analytical article. However, over the next few days, I hope to share with your snippets of…
This week on the podcast we discussed social media and its impact on youth. We looked through different platforms, explored concerns by older generations and touched on some of the growing issues regarding technology. Click the link below to check out the episode! https://linktr.ee/POYpodcast
This is a question which has been consistently debated over time. Often it is by students trying to explain why they can misbehave in front of teachers they dislike or by people refusing to succumb to authority by people in power. This is an important question to consider as respect is such an essential concept…
Over the past number of days, sporting stars have released direct messages and comments of racial abuse on their social media platforms. Famous National Rugby League (NRL) players, Latrell Mitchell and Blake Ferguson have been vilified by online trolls based on their indigenous heritage, however; this issue in Australia has persisted for many years. In…
Social media is a powerful 21st-century tool of communication. Many people argue that social media has harmed society due to individual’s only portraying the positive aspects of their life, leaving the issues undercover and invisible to the world which in many cases is correct. However, social media has positively transformed many aspects of life, which…
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