Pros, Joes and Influencers: Social Media and the Skateboarding Industry
It is no secret that the internet has changed the way people become famous. Previously, those who reached for the stars were reliant on the capital,...
Continue reading...THE DARK SIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
It is no surprise when I say that we live in a digitalized world. From emails to online banking, social media, streaming platforms, and even digitalized...
Continue reading...Influencers are better than you. (The one-sided story).
Influencers seem to be everywhere! They go to the greatest parties, wear the coolest clothing, and live the most beautiful and interesting lives and the beautiful...
Continue reading...Digital Discussions Episode 10
Episode 10: Creative Bondage in Digital Phenomena This the tenth episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities,...
Continue reading...Social Media is a marketplace, and don’t you dare forget about it!
The usage of social media has been a prevalent phenomenon since the early internet days. However, since the early use in the noughties, a lot has...
Continue reading...Poetry on your phone!
The Age of Business on Instagram
We all are familiar with Instagram and using it to post our life’s highlights to the quirky pictures or scroll through memes and cat pics. But...
Continue reading...Video: The Influence of Simfluencers
Yes, I’m hot in this, and more Islamic cartoons on Instagram
Yes, I’m hot in this is a webcomic (and a book we can buy off bol.com) written by the American Muslim Huda Fahmy, who describes herself...
Continue reading...Living in a perfect world is not that perfect
Girl Meets Digital World
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...The Beauty of CGI and Instagram
This blog will be about the combination of CGI and how small, absurd and uncanny CGI animations have gone viral many times on Instagram. After last...
Continue reading...The Mitty Effect
I think everyone has experienced The Mitty Effect. If you do not know what this is, it’s probably because I just made that term up. It...
Continue reading...Social Media: Community Guidelines
Last night, I bumped into an article on VICE. Which talked about different people who posted images on Instagram, which afterwards got deleted because of community...
Continue reading...Blurred Lines
Who am I ? Where am I going? What am I trying to say, and to whom? These questions may sound familiar to you. Maybe they...
Continue reading...Picture Perfect?
Nothing is what it seems. Not only magicians and politicians are experts at hiding the truth, arguably everyone participating on social media is some kind of...
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