Over the recent years, I’ve noticed that I’m having more and more trouble focusing on any task for more than five minutes. Even while writing this...
Continue reading...The wired headset has become a new retro trend! Are young people tired of AirPods?
The Wall Street Journal published a review article on the topic of AirPods. However, the article is not discussing the newly released AirPods3 this year, nor...
Continue reading...Is Martin Cabello real or just playing a character? – the disturbing side of an internet ‘personality’
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How has social media changed music production and reception?
A collaborative podcast with saschagalamikic from Digital Discoverers References “Break It Off”, song by PinkPantheress (start and end of podcast); used for educational and analytical purposes....
Continue reading...Spotify wrapped: most wonderful time of the year
It Wednesday December 1 and I open Instagram and see a story that fills me with so much joy and excitement. It is a story that...
Continue reading...Internet Apocalypse: What the Facebook Outage Tells Us About Our Dependency of Social Media
Picture this: Whatsapp messages are not getting through, Instagram feeds are not loading, Wifi routers are being turned on and off again all around the world,...
Continue reading...More rules for influencers, do they work?
On November 1st 2020, a new Media Law went into effect, allowing the Dutch Media Commmission to enforce on hidden or veiled advertising on YouTube, Instagram...
Continue reading...The bright side of Instagram
Instagram is a lot of things. It’s a communicative medium to stay up to date on what is happening in the lives of your contacts as...
Continue reading...A child-friendly Instagram
After discussing the Facebook survey that revealed the company’s knowledge of its harmful effects on teenage girls, I started wondering whether the platform will see any...
Continue reading...In honor of this #wordmentalhealthday
Lately, my social media seem to have been filled with two contradictory ideas. On my Instagram feed, I’ve been bombarded with posts about mental health and...
Continue reading...The dark side of Instagram
There is no denying the popularity of Instagram and other social media platforms. A lot of people, myself included, use Instagram and other social media platforms,...
Continue reading...Silicon Valley is our modern-day Library of Alexandria; let’s burn it to the ground!
Before I get on a watchlist, I want to clarify that in this blogpost I will not be talking about the physical Silicon Valley; just as...
Continue reading...Instagram culture and Goffman’s concepts of front stage and backstage behavior
There were several ideas in this week’s reading about the applicability of Goffman’s works to online identities that really stuck with me. When reading the paper,...
Continue reading...Procrastination as a business model
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Social media, netwerkmarketing and the gender specifics of Multi-Level Marketing
Multi-Level Marketing, or MLMs, are business enterprises in which participants seek not only to sell products to friends, family, and social media contacts, but also to...
Continue reading...Help! I am getting fewer likes online: Instagram and algorithm
You have probably heard this before: social media uses algorithm to keep track of your behaviour and use this to predict what you would like to...
Continue reading...The Rise of the Influencer and its Implications on Social Media
I think my first memory of using a social media platform was probably MySpace. In all honesty, I only had one friend — two, if you...
Continue reading...Comparing the Instagram pages of Dutch music labels
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Why I made an Instagram Page for my Cat
Ever since moving in together, my boyfriend and I have been obsessing over having a little companion in the house. We’d always really wanted a cat...
Continue reading...From Houseparty to Clubhouse: How I Have Lost Faith in Meaningful Social Network Designs
The sheer plethora of social media communication platforms that are launched every year continues to amaze me. When you thought you had nailed the perfect UX/UI...
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