Author: Gary Chapman
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Yelp Introduces Racism Flagging Feature
by Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu The popular app, Yelp, added a new feature that will flag businesses that are associated with racist behaviors. The app did this in response to a surge of responses by…
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Leet Tech: A look back at Phreaking
by Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu Before hacking became a thing in the mainstream, hacking was a thing that was sometimes just a group of hobbyists who are trying to access certain stuff, like changing the…
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World Wide Magazine: A Follow Up
By Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about “World Wide Magazine”, a long-running show on St. Louis area public access that ran from 1986-2001 ran by the enigmatic Pete…
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World Wide Magazine: A Contemporary Look at St. Louis’ Finest Public Access Show
By Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu Before YouTube, one of the ways that people could express themself in Public was Public Access television. Public access is pretty much where a person can rent a spot of…
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How TikTok and WeChat Was Banned and Unbanned in 48 Hours
by Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu On Sept. 18, a press release from the U.S Department of Commerce was released stating TikTok and WeChat were to be banned in the U.S., and not even 72 hours later,…
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Opens the World to Old and New
Cover photo: Flying the Cessna 172 to the horizon, Flight Simulator 2020’s visuals are almost photorealistic. Capture courtesy of Reddit user Lithominium. By Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu One of the longest-running franchises in gaming, surprisingly enough,…
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How WLCA is Dealing With COVID
By Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu As the Lewis and Clark Community College (L&C) campus is opening, one of the programs allowed in is the Radio Program. With a major part of the program revolving around talking…
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From TikTok to Fortnite: What Trump’s Executive Order Might Affect
By Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu On Thursday, August 6th, President Trump signed two executive orders banning transactions between the US and Bytedance, who are the owners of TikTok, and Tencent, a multinational conglomerate who owns the…
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From “Whip It” to “Idiocracy”: Devolution in Pop Culture
By Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu Ever since Charles Darwin wrote down his theory of evolution and natural selection, people have thought that evolution does need that push of natural selection to make sure that we are…
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WLCA’s Five Minute Shows Preview
By Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu As we will be stuck in our houses for an unknown amount of time, you need some entertainment. Well, WLCA is going to provide that entertainment by posting short podcasts onto…