The Brighter Side of Social Media: #ItsOkayToTalk
Luke Boulton discusses the hashtag #ItsOkayToTalk regarding men’s mental health and the importance of opening up.
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Scroll Free September: Are You up For The Challenge?
Features Editor, Linnea Lagerstedt highlights a new campaign encouraging people to give up social media for a month.
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Waging War on Social Media: Is It To Blame For the Mental Health Crisis?
Emily Fry looks into whether social media has just become the perfect scapegoat for the ever growing mental health crisis.
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Rant of The Week: Social Media Reliance – Hold on, Let Me Update My Status
Joanne Lisney discusses the prominent issues we are facing with social media.
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Uganda Plans To Tax People Using Social Media
The charge would be equivalent to £0.04 a day for use of social media.
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Top 5 Sexual Consent Campaigns
Akshada Rawat gives a breakdown on some of the most well known and successful sexual consent awareness campaigns worldwide.
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Am I a ‘Bad Feminist’?
We are always led to believe that being in an age of mass social awareness is a wholly positive one. However, what happens when we step out of line? Are we still as worthy or authentic as our equally open-minded peers? Practising what we preach is something a lot of us struggle to implement – and struggle to confess.
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Darker Side of Social Media: Internet Stalking
Features Editor, Amy Picknell looks into male victims of internet stalking, which is more common than you may think.
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Misogynistic Instagram Caption Disguised as Male Feminism
Kate Rowe-Brown discusses whether a man’s open letter to his ‘curvy’ wife is empowering and touching or condescending to all women.
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‘Nice Guy’ Feminism: Why Are Men Being Praised To Love Curvy Women?
Polly Marquis argues that despite the recent improvement in body-positivity on social media, there are still issues. Why should we care what men think of our bodies? Why should they be praised for loving us the way they are?
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