Welcome to my podcast! I discuss ‘an edit’ as a part of popular culture and explain how does it changes the way that people consume films...
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I miss the old Black Friday
This past week, most of the tweets and TikToks I’ve seen about Black Friday have been along the lines of “I miss when they gave away...
Continue reading...Keep your politics out of my tiktok
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(video essay) This Message is For You: When Spirituality Enters TikTok
I have been thinking about the relationship between digital media, especially TikTok, and spirituality for a while now. How does spirituality change when mediated by the...
Continue reading...(Podcast) Parasocial Relationships: From “Pookie Nation” to Oli London’s Marriage with Jimin (of BTS)
Have you ever been called “Pookie?” Or perhaps you have encountered Prayag Mishra’s “Pookie” TikTok or Reel on Instagram? Inspired by the new “Pookie” trend, we have explored levels of parasocial relationships in the digital environment! Join!
Continue reading...The Christmas Spirit and Other Consumerist Ghosts
As time moves past the Thanksgiving weekend (or for me, a poor retail employee, past Black Friday), or Halloween, it is officially Christmas time. Not religion-wise,...
Continue reading...Enhancing Museum Experiences through Digitalization
Do you visit museums often? Are you always feeling tired of the traditional way of visiting? As the world gets more digitalized, numerous industries are adapting...
Continue reading...Reddit For Reccomendations
Yahoo Answers, Quora, and Reddit are all platforms in which their content relies on the engagement between the users, and this structure allows people to create...
Continue reading...Should your therapist be on TikTok?
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No songs over 3 minutes allowed
Pinkpantheress’ debut album “Heaven knows” came out last week. It clocks in at 34 minutes with 14 songs making for an average song length of just...
Continue reading...What Happened to Romantic Comedies?
While listening to the podcast on the Digitalisation in the Movie Industry by Emily and Pratik—which, among other things, covers the usage of CGI and the...
Continue reading...Social Media is an Echo Chamber
In daily life, since we gain free access to surfing on the internet, we tend to fall into a pitfall that people are able to enter...
Continue reading...Being addicted to documenting the world around us- cons, but also pros of always having a camera in our pockets
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The Continuous Romanticisation of the “Sad Girl” Aesthetic within New Media: A Dive into the Debates Surrounding Lana Del Rey’s Digital Mediums
Trigger warning: This blogpost dives into themes surrounding mental health, specifically depression. “His Bonnie on the side, Bonnie on the side Makes me a sad, sad...
Continue reading...Searching for Authenticity Online
One of the assigned readings for this course was ‘The presentation of self in the online world’: Goffman and the study of online identities by Bullingham...
Continue reading...Digitalization in the movie industry
Hello everyone, welcome to our podcast about digitalization in the movie industry. Starting from the pre-production phase, we discussed how people use big data to understand...
Continue reading...Indicating Tone in Text-based Environments
I would reckon that every person was confused about the tone of a text message they received at least once in their lives. What did that...
Continue reading...Digital Souvenirs: Challenging Nostalgia’s Relationship with New and Old Media
In 2022 the entire screen of my iPhone fell off; there were no external scratches or bumps, no clear damage to the phone, yet the whole...
Continue reading...Finding Community In The Night Life
When I moved to Amsterdam, like a rite of passage, I became very interested in the techno scene, and after several nights of trial and error,...
Continue reading...Identity Crisis from Personality Tests
I believe that the reason the majority of people are obsessed with horoscopes is not because they believe it holds power over their lives, but because...
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