Perhaps one of the most important parts of social media is finding the “person” we want to put out there. At the end of the day...
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A day in the digital: Spend the day with me and my bestie (iPhone)
Wake up lazy bu**!!! Your phone alarm is vibrating. This is the first thing my brain think about every morning… I wish I were Barbie, so...
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Regulation of social media platform policy and monopolies
In this article, I explain why stricter and more proactive regulating of social media platforms such as the DSA and DMA are essential, and explain what aspects of this regulation are important.
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Is Instagram Over?
If we are to believe recent public opinion, the once-reigning social media platform is dead – or at least on its way there. Its evolution from...
Continue reading...The Digital Dark Age – Digital History, Burning like the Library of Alexandria
Tumblr “Resurgence”
Almost all of us are aware of the current situation of Twitter. However, if you somehow have not heard of it, I’ll give you some context....
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Rule 34 – from TikTok trends to My Little Pony.
Many of us are at least somewhat familiar with the rule 34 – the idea that if something exists, there must be porn of it. Nowadays,...
Continue reading...Close, yet closer: Reality TV and social media
With the increase of livestreaming and the subsequent drama, it feels like reality TV is getting closer to me, more and more present in my own home. Or am I going crazy?
Continue reading...The dark side of a highly personalized “For You” page – video
Hello Everyone! In this video, I will talk about TikTok’s selection of content and its role in the insurgence of addiction. For the definition of “addiction”...
Continue reading...Free Speech!! Except… You Don’t – The Changes on Twitter and the Meaning of Free Speech
We probably all have heard it… Elon Musk finally bought Twitter. How bad can it be?! Well… As someone who uses Twitter quite a lot (don’t...
Continue reading...When something tragic happened: Seoul Halloween Crowd Crush and unfiltered content of this tragedy in social media.
Social media, such as Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc, has become a platform for creating and consuming content. Hereby, among many other functionalities of social media, it...
Continue reading...“Burn Before Reading” How WeChat Censors Pictures and Videos
According to a study published by Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, Canada, WeChat – the largest social platform in China with...
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The chained (networked) society
Why I struggle to BeReal
BeReal, the new social media platform that has recently taken the world by storm, has already been the protagonist of several blog posts on this website....
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I developed a sentiment of rebellion against the propaganda at a very early age, not because I was a genius who realized the nature of the...
Continue reading...Politics of the Digital: The Ultimate Influencer
In this video, I talk about a big-picture perspective on the digital by looking at politics. Namely, I cover the influence of the United States and...
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