This week’s edition of Blind Date saw two ladies put it all on the line for love in 2020’s first rainbow date. House on Hood played its part in hosting this edition’s epic piece of matchmaking. She Said Alright, let’s be honest here, being a lesbian is just a daily
For clarity, I will use the term ‘virtual reality’ in a literal sense, i.e.: a reality, fiction or otherwise, created by the mind existing separately to our true reality. I will use the term ‘VR’ to refer to the kind of virtual reality that requires ridiculous headgear. What is our
From Myanmar to Michigan Facebook and other platforms are being weaponised, but who is to blame? In the latest of our series “Alex goes deep”, Nebesky looks at just how responsible Mark Zuckerburg and the social media billionaires are for the rise of hate speech and disinformation on their platforms.
Recently Nexus had a virtual sit down with Luke Horan, a student here at the University of Waikato who is a 2020 Esports Scholar, to have a chat about his career in Esports, and it becoming more and more mainstream. Nexus: How long have you been involved with gaming? Luke:
Online dating gets a bad rep. I think almost anybody would agree that it’s preferable to meet your partner in person, the old-fashioned way, like perhaps by having your parents set you up in exchange for the family goat. But beggars can’t be fucking choosers. I mean, in an ideal
No one knows more about having an ego than a first year at University so we asked our newest Nexus writer Hannah Petuha to play both patient and therapist as she talks about the role of the ego in social media and how putting down your phone might help your
Harry I feel as though the whole argument behind why social media is a good thing and how it should be accepted is slowly becoming irrelevant. Platforms are becoming less about connection and more about attention. Facebook started as a way to let your friends know what you were up
The phrase Social Media drug is one that is used all too often to describe the addiction behind the screen. The thing is it is something we have become accustomed to and often ignore now but the addiction behind Social Media services is both real and intentionally baked in. So
Keyboard warriors rejoice! From Arab Spring to the Beehive, Social Media Activism is rampant and, according to Luka Love, productive. But does change occur on Facebook or is it just a tool to start a conversation? Activism in its near infinite permutations has taken many forms over the span of
When we started planning this six-issue run of Nexus we decided to commit to break from a standard student magazine layout and get a little adventurous. We thought about what topics we actually wanted to read, what we wanted to say, and what it would ultimately all look like. Planning