“According to this {the structuralist} perspective, people don’t ‘think or speak ideas’ or make meanings. In fact, the very idea of a ‘free subject’ is, ironically,...
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The Magical School Bus of the Internet
As a late-nineties baby, I derive this laughable sense of comfort from distinctly remembering a time before the internet was a household necessity. Somehow I am...
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...
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It’s a funny phenomenon that you see more and more often. Human beings that have been alive for only 2 months that aren’t even able to...
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Humans Are Social Animals “We, as humans, are social animals.” This is a phrase that I have been hearing since middle school. I have learned that...
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...Modern Art Thieves: Literally and Figuratively Children
If someone comes up to you and asks you to picture an art thief in your mind, your first reaction is probably something along the lines...
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Online and offline life: the duality of nowadays reality
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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...
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As a child, we’ve all looked up at the night sky, trying to count the stars. But even that tiny piece of sky was so filled...
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Good Morning & Good Night: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Little Pep Talks” for the Twittersphere
The endless noise of the Twitter timeline can be a bit much, to say the least. From the latest inane statement of a world leader (these...
Continue reading...Influence in the Age of Saturation
“It’s time for me – and you – to take a lesson from the big brands…We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be...
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In my final blog post, I will be discussing motivations. What are some of peoples’ motivations in consuming digital media? People use digital media for various...
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Since the rise of new media, the media academia has struggled to follow the new spectrum of possibilities. They had to reassemble almost every theory...
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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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The internet is a great place. Never in history has information been more accessible to so many people around the globe. Everything you want to know...
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There are a couple of everyday, digital media terms that really bother me: ‘digital natives’, because it presupposes you can classify people into generations and dismiss...
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