It’s become somewhat commonplace to see that strange mix of letters and numbers, or that new way of saying death. Murder is turned into unaliving someone,...
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Booktok’s Tropification of Modern Literature
“Enemies to Lovers”, “Love Triangle”, “Dark Academia”, “Fake Dating”. You may recognize these phrases if you’ve ever come across a book recommendation video on TikTok. At...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...Appropriating Black Virality
by Lorenzo Holder Growing up outside of the USA in the 1990’s meant lagging behind popular culture by approximately a year or at least the time...
Continue reading...Paralympics TikTok account: the thin line between ableism and inclusivity?
Videos from the official TikTok account of the Paralympics has crossed my feed on different platforms on more than one occasion. Their videos often use clips...
Continue reading...the issue with ryanification of digital marketing strategies
Ryanification of digital marketing strategies or alternatively known as “Gen-Z marketing” gained popularity and acclamation about 2 years ago. The increased use of social media in...
Continue reading...An Age of (Re)discovery: ‘Duvet’ by bôa and how TikTok has transformed the way we consume music.
If you’ve used TikTok at any point over the past six months, you’ve most likely heard this song. Whether it be the chorus, the first thirty...
Continue reading...TikTok – A new Source for News?
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RPGs and virtual economies – the curious case of Dabloontok
epic video about TikTok and how they created an RPG using the algorithm of the app. also money
Continue reading...What’s the hype (house)? Podcast
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What’s the hype (house)? Podcast
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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...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...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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In the mind of a college student: digital media vs. everyday life
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TikTok Trend ‘Ask AI to draw’: can AI replace handmade art?
Introduction In the digital society we currently live in we come across many trends. One of the trends I came upon is the ‘Ask AI’ trend...
Continue reading...Instagram ads gone too far (video)
I’ve made a short videos about the problems of instagram advertisements and paid sponsorship of cosmetic procedures and plastic surgeries. Enjoy! Sources https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-59406842 https://brogan.com/blog/cosmetic-surgery-advertising-changing-face-medical-marketing/ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/instagram-being-flooded-by-fake-cosmetic-surgery-posts-that-can-be-deadly-3990893.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-instagram-plastic-surgery-study-0830-biz-20170829-story.html...
Continue reading...The reason why my attention span became shorter than a duck
Over the recent years, I’ve noticed that I’m having more and more trouble focusing on any task for more than five minutes. Even while writing this...
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