In today’s digital age, platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have revolutionized how we connect with friends, engage with peers, and establish global connections. However, not...
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Curation of Social Media & the Use of Filters
A common conception of social media is that it is fake and highly curated. But can this really be true for everybody? Is the whole idea...
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Negative effects of Instagram, whose responsibility is it? – The side of the user (blog 2/2)
Negative effects of Instagram, whose responsibility is it? – The side of the maker (blog 1/2)
Social Media is an Echo Chamber
In daily life, since we gain free access to surfing on the internet, we tend to fall into a pitfall that people are able to enter...
Continue reading...“POV” videos – social media escapism
If you have read the title, and the speed up version of “money, money, money” by ABBA started to play in your mind then you are...
Continue reading...Retake Essay – Digital media: Renewing the Way People Perceive and Understand the World
The development of digital media relies on the advancement of the Internet and information technology, which not only improves the efficiency of message dissemination, but also...
Continue reading...Searching for Authenticity Online
One of the assigned readings for this course was ‘The presentation of self in the online world’: Goffman and the study of online identities by Bullingham...
Continue reading...Otome Game: Emotional communication with video games
Definition Otome games are a type of relationship simulation game with a female audience as the target audience. Raiders are generally male characters, with a few...
Continue reading...Indicating Tone in Text-based Environments
I would reckon that every person was confused about the tone of a text message they received at least once in their lives. What did that...
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Creation of New Vocabulary
Language serves as the carrier of information, and in the age of information explosion, the interplay of multiple languages makes it easy for people to create...
Continue reading...Digital-age Romance: Social Media’s Influence on Love
In today’s world of social media, our love stories have taken on a whole new flavor. Those days of quietly savoring special moments with our beloved...
Continue reading...The Influence of Social Media on Youth: The iPad Generation
In today’s digital age, an entire generation is growing up with technology at their fingertips. Often referred to as the “iPad Generation,” this new generation is...
Continue reading...The Downfall of Friend-Based Social Media
In the early 2000s, the Internet experienced an upsurge of social media platforms that forever changed the way we connect to each other. Friend-based social media,...
Continue reading...MBTI: From Personality Types to Memes, Why We Can’t Get Enough
If you’ve been exploring the online world lately, you’ve likely come across a peculiar combination of four letters in your social media feeds. It’s almost become...
Continue reading...Digital Display, Artistic Personalities on the Internet
Artistic Persona How much does an artistic Instagram profile have in common with the actual person standing behind it? As I wrote about digital identities in...
Continue reading...How NOT to act on social media during war
Before starting this writing, I just want to state that this is not a political writing, and I am not picking sides. The examples given are...
Continue reading...AI – Learning the “Smart” Way
Just a few days ago, I had been doing my regular scroll through my TikTok ‘For You Page’ when suddenly a video about a new AI...
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