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If you haven't been on Twitter or any social media platforms today, there has been some trending news that the musical hip-hop artist Drake and Travis Scott and NFL player JuJu Smith have teamed up in the video game Fortnite to play along with a famous Twitch live-streaming Fortnite player, Tyler Blevins "Ninja" . What is Fortnite? What does it have to do with anything? Fortnite is a cross co-op sandbox survival game released by Epic Games in July 2017. Nine months later, the game, has turned into one of the most popular video games in the video game industry with over 45 million players playing daily.  Cross Co-op? Many electronic consoles like the PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 allows video game players to play in the same Fortnite servers, allowing different video game systems to play with one another, making it interconnectedly interesting for all users to engage. The concept of cross co-op brings video gaming t...

via GIPHY Soooo.. what is the Groundswell ? Is the Earth ground swelling up into destruction? Well to explain, the term 'groundswell' is "a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather from traditional institutions like corporations"   ( Li & Bernoff, 2011, p. 9) .  To put this into perspective, groundswell has always existed as people have always depended on each other and drawn strength from one another. Now.. with the advent and spread of social technologies and the internet, people and technology have worked hand and hand to organize in favor or against corporations through the world wide web. To get a sense of what this Groundswell can mean in today's society, we can make references to what has happened last night, in what is a important and glorious day for American Football (NFL) history, THE SUPERBOWL! via GIPHY  The Superbowl is the annual championship game of the National ...