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“It felt great to be recognized by our peers who valued the creativity we put into a program that was intentionally designed to introduce new students to resources, services and current students on campus."

In celebration of Pride Month, here are 12 artists, creators and activists from Houston with an online social media presence.

Selfies have been around since the 1800s when Van Gogh painted his famous self portrait. Since the invention of social media, selfies have taken off as a creative outlet for one to express themself.

Humans are a gullible race. We tend to look for a crowd to follow, and Facebook knows it. That is why Facebook chose to run not only political ads but also to publish ads rife with lies and exaggerations.

In a social world where users increasingly interact through a graphic user interface or application on their mobile device, what constitutes a real experience has changed. In a time of uncertainty because of the propagation of fake news,…

“With great power comes great responsibility.” This quote has been attributed to everyone from Voltaire to uncle Ben Parker from Spider-Man. With everything that has surfaced in recent times regarding Facebook, however, many are questioning…

With social media more popular than ever, more teenagers and young adults are finding the glamorous lives of social media sensations to be more and more enticing. Falling prey to temptations, however, can lead to the most serious of…

In the era of fake news, perspective is everything. The origins of this debate are not new - yellow journalism at the turn of the century turned the news into a political weapon, allowing private interests to elect officials, shut down…

The concept of “fake news” is a threat to journalism and to journalists, because it tries to discredit legitimate news as “fake,” simply because a public figure does not like what is written about them.