If you’d ask me, the first (and probably only) source, via which people of my generation are exposed to global headlines and news, are social media...
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Fantasy worlds: where the internet goes to hide and other myths
I must admit that, from a technical point of view, “the internet” often still is a great mystery to me. While the use of media that...
Continue reading...Videoessay: The tastemakers
How does social media shape, dictate and change our notion of style? https://video.leidenuniv.nl/media/t/1_omoa8q7u A videoessay by Franziska Rudert, created for the seminar Digital Media, Culture and Society at...
Continue reading...Judith Butler did it first 🥀🥀🥀
It’s 2025 and hardly anyone keeps the (online) world in such suspense then the so called “performative male” : little internet phenomena have spilled over into...
Continue reading...Truth engines? How information finds us in the digital age.
It is a sign of our time – an era often referred to as the “information age” (Galloway, 111) – that media is generally understood as...
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At this point, it’s has become a running gag in our family, my alleged first encounter with (digital) media.In our living room, we had a huge...
Continue reading...countless uncritical encounters – but who would take advise from strangers anyway
There seems to be an immediate sight of frustration associated with the prompt to consciously reflect on our digital lives: although we (students) are all constantly...
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