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...
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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...
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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
What’s the hype (house)? Podcast
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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I am sure most of us have an impressive collection of compromising photos of our younger selves stored in dusty photo albums that get ‘re-discovered’ every...
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In the mind of a college student: digital media vs. everyday life
Let’s ‘BeReal’ for a Moment
Nowadays, Generation Z (or simply ‘zoomers’) has a wide selection of social media platforms to choose from: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, and who...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...I’m on #GISTok!
Yesterday was just like any other day, I was sitting in my room, scrolling through my TikTok For You page when I came across this one...
Continue reading...How has social media changed music production and reception?
A collaborative podcast with saschagalamikic from Digital Discoverers References “Break It Off”, song by PinkPantheress (start and end of podcast); used for educational and analytical purposes....
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A podcast with anna.barbara References: “Break It Off”, song by PinkPantheress (start and end of podcast); used for educational and analytical purposes. “Pinkpantheress: The Voice of...
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