Media
The disturbing rise of toxic male role models
In the last 20 or so years the internet and use of social media has made it possible for humanity to become ever more connected, the...
Continue reading...On Being a Fan in the Digital Age
Recently, I deleted TikTok from my phone (again) and restricted the visibility of some accounts on my Instagram page. Being on social media became tiring, instead...
Continue reading...The Age of Influencers: Why Are We So Obsessed with Them?
Have you ever thought – who is an “influencer”? For example, a famous celebrity, aka businesswoman and media persona, Kylie Jenner shares some posts on Instagram and, suddenly, thousands admire her and are in a rush to follow her lead. Why?
Continue reading...How Kylie Jenner fooled us all?
Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about how influencers subconsciously play such an important role in our lives and are convincing us into buying...
Continue reading...From war to mystery pink pigeon- how the same news platforms varies in their content on different media
Scrolling away the doom: the destruction of human happiness
Browsing the web as means of passing time has been around for some time, yet active, mindless scrolling, that consumes quite a lot of our time,...
Continue reading...Filtered Reality: How Instagram Fuels Body Image Insecurities
Making The Day Less Digital: Tackling My Phone Addiction
A Lifetime in the Digital
The buzzing of an alarm clock, music or podcast dialogues filling rooms, texts and emails popping up on every screen: these are just a sprinkling of...
Continue reading...Why we shouldn’t presume that the web is flat
Regulation of social media platform policy and monopolies
In this article, I explain why stricter and more proactive regulating of social media platforms such as the DSA and DMA are essential, and explain what aspects of this regulation are important.
Continue reading...Toward a different perspective on web-based objects
Introduction What are web-based objects, or what might they be? Since objects are culturally constituted, it is interesting to ask how the increasingly digital and internet-oriented...
Continue reading...“Inside” is a time period defining masterpiece
No one really likes to talk anymore about the time period where Bo Burnham’s “Inside” came out. It came out on May 30th 2021 and was...
Continue reading...Why the shuffle feature on streaming platforms suck
This is probably something that happened to you. You have carefully created the perfect playlist for your mood and you love every single song that is...
Continue reading...How an artist with meme skills took advantage of the music industry
It broke record after record after record on the top music charts and it would be almost impossible to find someone who was alive during 2020...
Continue reading...Unnamed Podcast Episode 8: Tactical Social Media, and The Culture of Jamming
Hello and welcome to the eight podcast episode made by Ceiba Dick-Read, Max Alexandre and Gijs Mesman. In this episode, Ceiba is host and continues the...
Continue reading...Virtual concerts; yay or nay?
Is digital media the new medium for musicians to share music with the world? Do people actually prefer digital concerts? These are the types of questions...
Continue reading...FLA(c)K Podcast episode 1: webtoon and Webtoon – part 2
Audio Transcript Disclaimer: this is our first podcast ever so beware of a lot of stopwords and awkward phrasing. To make this podcast more easily understandable and accessible,...
Continue reading...FLA(c)K Podcast episode 1: webtoon and Webtoon – part 1
Audio Transcript Disclaimer: this is our first podcast ever so beware of a lot of stopwords and awkward phrasing. To make this podcast more easily understandable...
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