With the increase of our time online, the fact that cyberbullying cases have increased should not come as a surprise. But what makes it different than...
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Safe Spaces for… Men
I recently joined a Facebook group where it consists of only females. It’s really quite nice since I get to expand my social circle, and I...
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Emotions for Likes: It’s Good for Business
Written by: Akif Aliyev The year of 2020 in many senses has been a year of reflection. Not just for me I believe, but for all...
Continue reading...The A to Z of My Relationship w/the Internet
In hopes of wrapping up these series of blogs in style, I thought I would document the A to Z of things I have discovered through...
Continue reading...Thoughts on Mental Health on the WWW
An estimated 1.1 billion people are affected by mental or substance use disorders worldwide. A critical aspect of these disorders is that the majority have their...
Continue reading...Intuitive Eating (of Social Media Feeds)
The Context Social media platforms bring about so many opportunities for enhanced global connection and access, and yet I often feel very passive on these platforms....
Continue reading...2+2=4 -1=3 Quick Maths…
Cloudy With a Chance of Brains
Waking up dead tired on a dreary Saturday morning is never fun, but even more so in November. The sky is grey and it never seems...
Continue reading...What Does Our Facebook Profile Say About Us?
There are an immense amount of social media platforms current, probably we don’t even know about some of them. However, Facebook is probably the one that...
Continue reading...We are all cyborgs (video + blogpost)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9nRolGa42w The video titled ‘We Are All Cyborgs’ is a short introduction and artistic interpretation of Donna Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985). What is a cyborg you...
Continue reading...Digital Media As Means To Equality Or Diversity
In my previous blog posts, I have talked about the current orientation towards a digital era, increased digital and social media usage, increased perfectionism and stereotyping,...
Continue reading...Digital Marketing- Part. 2.
What Color Are Bananas?
I can hear you saying, ‘What a dumb question, yellow of course!’. One of my classmates asked this question the other day, which didn’t even make...
Continue reading...Is Digital Media Democratizing? Vol.2
Digital Media As An Accelerator Of Perfectionism
Can you remember when you first heard of the concept, ‘mental health’? (I can’t.) I don’t remember being informed about mental health, its examples and potential...
Continue reading...Youtube censorship
In June 2019, YouTube temporarily suspended the account of the archive of Alkmaar. Their reason? The archive uploaded historical footage on their account, including a few...
Continue reading...Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.
Pop a tab, slip under an MRI and what you would see might surprise you. Brain networks that normally handle vision, attention, movement and hearing communicate...
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