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....
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Social Media and Music
A podcast with anna.barbara References: “Break It Off”, song by PinkPantheress (start and end of podcast); used for educational and analytical purposes. “Pinkpantheress: The Voice of...
Continue reading...Is Subway a person? Personifying Companies Through Social Media Influencers
This blog is a continuation of a previous blog “Corporate Tik Tok”. After my research on how corporate companies are creating personas for themselves and redefining...
Continue reading...Learning Russian with Putin
Before you start making things up in your mind, I will have to disappoint you: no, Putin did not teach me Russian himself. I am referring...
Continue reading...‘Just Chatting’
What I’ve noticed in our generation and its relation to media consumption is that even when we’re busy doing one task, we like to consume some...
Continue reading...The new snake oil marketplace
Today I read a news article about Dutch influencer Donny Roelvink who apologized for recommending a cosmetic medical procedure. He had had porcelain plates added to...
Continue reading...The end of the 2000-2010s vlogging era
After a day of classes and studying in high school there was nothing I enjoyed more than coming home and watching YouTube. More specifically, checking what...
Continue reading...Don’t F**K With Cats
I will admit, I downloaded TikTok at the beginning of the pandemic in an attempt to mindlessly entertain myself – and it worked pretty well. One...
Continue reading...Reaction channels on Youtube, their popularity and controversies
The popularity of reaction channels on Youtube is high, and has been for several years. I myself follow quite a lot of reaction channels. A simple...
Continue reading...Pipelines and rabbit holes: Falling prey to algorithms
I was fully prepared to make my next blog post about Minecraft – I had a whole idea prepared and everything. But then, while having a...
Continue reading...Dungeons and Dragons and Digital spaces
What is Dungeons and Dragons? Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D for short, is a tabletop RPG where the core is storytelling and the goal is having...
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...“Social Media makes people think their opinion matter too much”
I don’t remember exactly when it was, or who exactly said it, but I once heard someone say that the problem with this generation is that...
Continue reading...Fast fashion and influencers: social media made me buy it!
As Black Friday is approaching and has increased in popularity in The Netherlands, I thought it would be interesting to write about the impact of social...
Continue reading...Youtube fitness content, how it kept me more motivated to keep exercising.
I’ve had multiple subscriptions to multiple gyms, but after a few months I just had no motivation to continue going. I was either too busy or...
Continue reading...The People Behind Your Safe Feed
After playing the Amazon race, which highlighted Amazon’s poor employee code of conduct and ethics, I was inspired to write my blog about a similar case...
Continue reading...Learning about Criminal Psychology through… YouTube?
The transphobia pipeline – TikTok’s algorithm and harmful content
I was scrolling through TikTok, as I usually do, and sometimes you can come across actually insightful and interesting content. One of those videos came on...
Continue reading...Is success on Youtube based on skill or luck? – Ludwig tests a theory
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,...
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