Social Media
The Dancing Banana – My first digital experience
Visiting God in the Cloud
written by: Aurora E. L. Turkenburg On Thursday, March 12th of this year, the Dutch government advised to halt all venues with more than 100 people...
Continue reading...Is TikTok a uniquely dangerous app?
This blog is partially inspired by Janessa’s blogpost on Tiktok, the most recent international, and fastest growing social media. Janessa’s blog/videos discussed the medium and gave...
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...Writing history in the age of Big Data
Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through...
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...Social media’s instant gratification
The traditional social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are insanely popular nowadays, some more than others depending on the demographic and age group....
Continue reading...In Memory of r/Place
Whenever I hear the term ‘social experiment’ these days, my mind immediately goes to this awful trend of various internet personalities doing increasingly rude things to...
Continue reading...Echo Chambers – The Concequence of a Customizable Online Feed
The advent of digitization and social media has allowed people to customize exactly what they see on their Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc. front page and feeds....
Continue reading...Digital Marketing- Part. 2.
Personalized Avatars: Memojis and Bitmojis
About Social Media’s Features Being (Mis)Used To Create Unconventional Entertainment!
I’m well aware that my previous posts have all been rather cynical, so for this week’s post I have decided to briefly present one of my...
Continue reading...Narcissism in the online world
Social media: ideal for populists and right wing extremists?
Some will argue that social media has enriched our lives and some will despise it. One of its aspects is that it can be used to...
Continue reading...Job application: Social media manager
This week’s blog I want to dedicate to my own interaction with social media, as someone who has managed the social media for several organisations. A...
Continue reading...No Stalking Beforehand
I got my inspiration for this blog while watching an episode of “How I Met Your Mother”. Ted, the protagonist, goes on a date with a...
Continue reading...Language Games
The inspiration for writing this blog post came to me while trying to have a conversation with my mother. Keyword: trying. It has become increasingly difficult...
Continue reading...Social media blunders
Nowadays, people know the ins and outs of social media. Especially children that grew up with iPads, tablets and smartphones have built up some sort of...
Continue reading...The Blurred Lines Between Anonymity and Role-Playing
I want to analyze the role of anonymity in one’s humanity. The digital world has made it extremely easy to go undercover, to a certain extent....
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