DEFINING THE GREEN Let’s start by defining some of the parameters. We tried to write this a few times and there was some confusion around “what exactly is the Village Green?” so we are going to brush off our year 11 debating hat and define the topic. For our...
Top 5 UK campuses that’ll make you feel ashamed to study in Hamilton If you’re to forget about the rampant knife crime, scooter crime, general cost of living, having to admit that you live in the UK, the soul crushing absence of bakery pies, being in close proximity to...
By the time you are reading this, we are two or three issues into our experiment. We decided to devote the last six weeks of the run to something absolutely new. Some of that was born out of a reaction to this year, feeling that we had been robbed...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
Like any good game of poker we figured we had to show our cards at some point. Here is how our editorial team placed in the Isidewith NZ politics website. To no ones surprise we aren’t ALL the left wing communist stereotypes. We also hired Josh. Josh 84% –...
