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Continue reading...Digital Divas Podcast: Her Obsession with Crime
Welcome to our Digital Divas Podcast! In this episode, Eliza Brunsdon, Valeria Moretti, and Tusheeny Minguel (Shey) discuss the impact of true crime consumption on young...
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What keeps a language alive in the age of TikTok?In this podcast, we explore what it means for a language to be endangered and discuss how...
Continue reading...Why ASMR
Why ASMR? Intended audience: anyone browsing on the internet. We will use simple words and give context, but we expect that the audience in some degree...
Continue reading...Podcast essay: The City as a Stage: How Media Shapes Our Travels
In this podcast, I talk about how the image of a city we see in movies and on social media can be very different from what...
Continue reading...Podcast: Endangered languages and Tiktok
What keeps a language alive in the age of TikTok?In this podcast, we explore what it means for a language to be “endangered” and discuss how...
Continue reading...Video essay: is using a flip phone in 2025 a good idea? how being offline became part of our scrolling routine
Video Essay: Have Tweens Been Erased from the Media
In this video essay, I discuss the recent loss in media aimed at tweens, and what the dangers of this could be.Have Tweens Been Erased from...
Continue reading...Video Essay: Addicted to the Screen…Until We Finally Look Away
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Continue reading...Selling Femininity in Digital Media
This video is co-edited by Xinyu Yao and Ge Shi. Description In this video essay, we use perfume advertisements as our subject of study, focusing on how...
Continue reading...Video essay:Selling Femininity in Digital Media
https://youtu.be/wjeGcjdBlxs This video is co-edited by Ge Shi and Xinyu Yao. Description: In this video essay, we use perfume advertisements as our subject of study, focusing on...
Continue reading...Videoessay: The tastemakers
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Continue reading...Video Essay: How Are Italian Schools Adapting To The Fast Development Of The Digital?
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Continue reading...Ceci n’est pas un Podcast!
“This is not a pipe,” Magritte warned us, and yet, we keep mistaking the image for the thing itself. In this episode, we trace how screens...
Continue reading...Ceci n’est pas un podcast :)
“This is not a pipe,” Magritte warned us, and yet, we keep mistaking the image for the thing itself. In this episode, we trace how screens...
Continue reading...The Aesthetic Trap video essay
https://video.leidenuniv.nl/media/t/1_ve19g89d This video essay is by Kayra Gunduz, talking about how social media has transformed the idea of self-improvement into performance. The video refers to how...
Continue reading...Podcast about the VR world and its evolution
Together with my co-host Florine, I recorded a podcast about the world of VR. We thought this was an interesting topic to discuss because there are...
Continue reading...Podcast Bodies in the Age of Screens : The return of heroin chic on our screens.
Welcome to the podcast Bodies in the Age of Screens, where we examine how digital platforms shape cultural norms around the body. In this episode, we...
Continue reading...‘WORK’ ▶ PRESS PLAY
Who hasn’t played a game before? Whether it was with friends, by yourself, in your imagination, on the playground, or online. For as long as I...
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