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For Ferguson, Help From a Hashtag

For Ferguson, Help From a Hashtag

By Marcia Chatelain August 26, 2014

If you’ve ever taken a class with me, you know the one thing I am unforgivingly strict about is the use of smartphones in the classroom. I hate gadgets. I hate the way they distract us and interfere...

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Social Rules As Dictated By Social Media

By Hannah Kaufman June 16, 2014

“War is Peace.” “Freedom is Slavery.” “Ignorance is Strength.” For anybody who’s ever read George Orwell’s “1984,” these three lines are among the most memorable phrases...

Media Spurs Microagression Movement

By Caroline Welch April 10, 2014

Universities across the country, including Georgetown, have become the nucleus of the burgeoning microaggressions movement which uses social media to promote dialogue about discrimination in daily life. The...

Social Media for Students

By Hannah Post March 25, 2014

In an attempt to advance Georgetown’s reputation as a connected, worldly university, the Office of Communications founded the Social Media Working Group in 2012 with the goal of developing a unified...

Marching On

By Braden McDonald and Molly Simio March 21, 2014

On the morning of May 3, 1971, upwards of 3,000 protesters who had flocked to the nation’s capital to protest the Vietnam War sought refuge on Georgetown’s campus. Driven out of their main base...

Georgetown Takes Top Spot for Social Media Influence

Georgetown Takes Top Spot for Social Media Influence

By KP and KP March 14, 2014

Here on the Hilltop, we already pride ourselves on being smart, but now, we can celebrate a new accomplishment: being social media savvy. According to InTheCapital, Georgetown University garnered the best...

#DBKGU Continues Conversation on Race

By Kit Clemente March 4, 2014

Toward the end of February, flyers featuring the hashtag #dbkgu began to appear around campus. On Monday, the group responsible for the flyers revealed the phrase’s meaning through the social media...

Drawing a Virtual Boundary

By Nicole Jarvis February 21, 2014

The world today is weird. We have taken our desire to share, to relate to others and to form relationships toward entirely unfathomable levels. It started with our generation — the so-called “millennials.”...

Super Bowl XLVIII as Told by Social Media

Super Bowl XLVIII as Told by Social Media

By Marnie Wallach and Marnie Wallach February 3, 2014

So that Super Bowl was ... well, it happened. Anyway, take a look at what Hoyas thought about the game, the halftime show and the commercials, as told by social media. Peyton Manning was the brunt of a...

It Aint Easy Bein Cheesy

It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Cheesy

By KP and KP January 28, 2014

Many Georgetown students were probably attentively listening to President Obama's State of the Union address tonight, but here at 4E, we're counting down the minutes to something that is far more important...

New Voices Join Online Protests

By Kit Clemente and Suzanne Monyak January 14, 2014

Inspired by the dialogue of the #BBGU campaign, Georgetown students provided personal experiences, thoughts and questions about their life at Georgetown University as students of color through the #BLGU...

University Taps Students For Social Media Strategy

By Molly Simio October 25, 2013

To gain insight into students’ perspectives on the role of social media at Georgetown, the Office of Communications is creating a Social Media Advisory Committee. “I really feel that Georgetown...

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