El Estoque

Enjoy the moment, not the photo

April Wang, Copy Editor • April 23, 2022

When El Estoque took a trip to the JEA/NSPA National Journalism Convention in Los Angeles this year, I was ecstatic. Four days with little adult supervision, what a freaking miracle! Down with vegetables!...

Down to the bits: technology in sports

Meggie Chen, Michelle Chen, Krish Dev, Irene Tang, Aashi Venkat, and Nika Zamani • April 1, 2022

Exploring how MVHS sports uses technology

Social media bites

Mikaylah Du, Graphics editor • March 18, 2022

Observing the issues with short-form activism posts

Like. Follow. Cheer.

Aashi Venkat and Nika Zamani • March 18, 2022

Exploring how sports teams use social media

TikTok challenges influence crime in school communities

Michelle Chen and Angela Zhang • February 11, 2022

Across the nation, threats to initiate school shootings and bombings circulated on TikTok the week of Dec. 17, 2021. As a popular social media platform, TikTok enabled the spread of this trend through...

Following the @finsta

Kalyani Puthenpurayil • January 15, 2022

Students create spam Instagram accounts for more exclusive, personal posts

Profits over People: How Facebook’s internal designs and systems harm its users

Melody Cui • December 5, 2021

Examining the impact of social media platforms in light of new accusatory claims

“Body goals”

Geethikaa Tarra • September 21, 2021

Examining the toxicity behind using the phrase “body goals"

#BookTok: The rising literary community for teens

Aashna Patel, staff writer • September 18, 2021

Last year sophomore Aya Abdelrahman found book related content on TikTok as she was trying to select books for her summer reading. After seeing a video of a content creator reviewing books , including...