Video games are potentially some of the richest, most nuanced forms of storytelling money can buy, and Hollow Knight: SIlksong shows us exactly why. Stories have been around since the dawn of language, and as technology advances, humanity explores new forms of storytelling to push boundaries and experiment. You’ve
Taylor Swift’s use of AI to generate promotional content for her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, casts a shadow of hypocrisy on her years of advocacy for fair compensation. On Oct. 4, hot off the release of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl,
The NFL knows how to sell out a show, but can it sell real change? Behind the spectacle of the Halftime Show and the carefully managed optics of league politics, a quiet culture war is being waged. For decades, the NFL has presented itself as more than just a sports
Rate My Professor is an unreliable resource for both students and instructors. It causes students and instructors to care more about reviews and ratings than actual learning or teaching. We’ve all been in this situation: it’s two, maybe three weeks into the semester, and you’re sitting in
1984 isn’t just a dystopian novel — it mirrors aspects of the potential future of the world I find myself in. Briefly, 1984 is an arguably prophetic dystopian tale about a man actively battling with truth and his understanding of it. The book walks us through the extensive range of
Once sites of genuine community and creativity, modern fan conventions now exemplify how social-media-driven cultural capital, market inflation, fast-fashion economics and unsafe crowding practices undermine the very subcultures they claim to celebrate. Fan culture has been a prevalent powerhouse in popular culture and media, and conventions are
Artificial Intelligence (AI) needs to be explored and utilized in ways that will help advance students’ comprehensive understanding of different concepts. However, AI use has to be monitored and limited to some extent because of the damage it does to our minds and human uniqueness. There was a time when
Dear upper-year students, If you are anything like me, the start of the semester can be difficult as you move through your degree. The first week is both exciting and scary because you realize you have reached the beginning of the end. For me, this realization was even scarier
Students have been told our tuition will be raised for the sixth year in a row, and as I look at our efforts to fight back, I fear we may have lost the battle before it even began. On Oct. 7, the University of Calgary hosted their Fall Community Discussion:
BookTok and its need for “spicy” reads has contributed to the fall of the classics and the creation of salacious book-to-screen adaptations. Although many popular book-to-screen adaptations have been quite successful — despite frequent inaccuracies like costuming, casting, plotholes, etc. — none have caused quite as large an
