7th April 2023 - The Glasgow Guardian



Breaking through the noise

7th April 2023

How can TikTok algorithms be manipulated to promote new music? Techniques of promotion that were previously accessible to only a select few people have, in recent years, expanded to anyone with access to the internet. Using internet trends to manoeuvre through the algorithm; independent artists and newcomers to the industry can attract a fanbase, promote ...


An ode to the photograph

7th April 2023

Writer SIN I NG considers the ever-changing world of art in the face of so much new technology There is no doubt that the form of art has encountered major changes after the establishment of technology. Technology interrupted art the moment Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a French scientist, pressed the button on his camera in 1826 ...


Creativity or Class? Affluence driving elitism in UK art schools

7th April 2023

The social class divide in art schools and how it pushes poorer students out Class dynamics in the arts industry is a conversation that people dance around. Access to a creative education should be available without obstacles, however it is gatekept by elitism and bought opportunity from those who can afford it. In a world ...


Academia’s acute accessibility problem

7th April 2023

The Glasgow Guardian explores whether universities are doing enough to make academia accessible. Knowledge is a diverse substance. One which knows no boundaries to those who obtain it, regardless of gender, race, class or disability. Accordingly, it would seem that academia, a field of knowledge and study, should be an institution built upon such diversity ...


Battling through university

7th April 2023

Dealing with grief and the lack of compassion in the University’s ‘support structures’. My mum passed away at the end of my first year of university, and it was the hardest thing I have ever faced. She died at the end of April, and three days later, I found myself sitting in Bute Hall, trying ...