Jayden Kim

Category: Features

  • Psychological Grasp of Social Media

    This paper explores the mechanisms by which social media psychologically grasps the attention of its users and how easily behaviors can be learned from it. The paper discusses the nucleus accumbens and its role in the mesolimbic system to positively associate stimuli with dopamine rewards, and how the social media algorithm uses it to retain…

  • Existentialism in Minecraft

    Jayden Kim, Instructor Sheng Kao | ENGL 131 Major Project 2 | 23 Nov. 2025, Rev. 9 Dec. 2025. — As I reminisce upon my childhood, a period of my life that is now departing from me, I remember one game that I spent much of my life surrounded with. On the 17th of June,…

  • The United States Intervenes on Iran-Israel Conflict

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  • Christian Nationalist Social Media on January 6, 2021

    Abstract The problem in this digital age is the easily accessible channels of communication. The influence of social media has been ever-increasing, particularly in bettering democracy. However, scholars attribute social media to causing attempts to limit democracy, one of which being the Capitol Insurrection in 2021. Social media played a large role in organizing and…

  • Never Alone — Schools as “Panopticosms”

    Maker’s Statement What I wanted to do with this project was convey the innate panopticosmic traits within education by referring to sources and mediums we’ve engaged through this year while retelling my Transition School journey. My non-written piece, the musical score, fashions different sections as different parts of my year. Within these different sections, I…