When you walk into a clothing store these days, it’s impossible to miss how quickly the they seem to jump on the latest TikTok or Instagram...
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A love letter to Letterboxd
The beauty of the digital world is that you can find little niches and make them your safe space. For me, there are a number of...
Continue reading...Response to Injustice: Digital “Activism” and the Need for Real-World Action
In recent years, the digital landscape has transformed the way we communicate, share information, and engage with social issues. One of the most significant changes from...
Continue reading...How did the ‘World Brain’ fail to help me?
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Kidfluencers: The New Generation of Child Stars
One thing I hate to see on my timeline is content made by or centred around kids. Mommy influencers, “kidfluencers” and videos of children’s vulnerable moments,...
Continue reading...Big Tech and The State
In the past weeks, the shock arrest of Pavel Durov, founder of the social media network Telegram has made global headlines and highlights yet another battle...
Continue reading...The TEMU Pandemic
Who doesn’t want to shop like a billionaire? 🤑 The massive online marketplace TEMU claims to give you just the opportunity! The new retail sensation has...
Continue reading...The digital positives and negatives
There are many ways to engage with the digital world. For example it can be used to connect with people, to entertain yourself and others, to...
Continue reading...Main Character Syndrome in Comment Sections
Picture this: you’re scrolling through your TikTok feed when you stumble across a video about a new game coming out. You watch the video all the...
Continue reading...Healthy or toxic? Who decides what your relationship with the digital will be?
Writing about spending a day in the digital world doesn’t feel particularly challenging – I suppose the reason for that is the fact that I can’t...
Continue reading...Meta’s Power on Our Feeds
When I Scroll, I Don’t Think A day in the digital, for most of us being a scroll through social media, looks quite different, even if...
Continue reading...Live-streaming Queens: the bizarre and lucrative world of China’s live-streaming influencers
Scrolling through my Instagram content the other morning I came across a video that caught my attention. Most of the algorithmic content that pops up on the...
Continue reading...Shared Nostalgia: How social media fuels our longing for the past
The phenomenon of nostalgia, and its status in the internet age has been a regular point of discussion and thought in many of my blog posts...
Continue reading...Black Box of Machine Learning
Machine learning is a great tool that we use on a daily basis. Even though the first example that would come to mind would be Chatgpt, machine...
Continue reading...Vintage.com: How the Internet digitised one of fashion’s most analogue traditions
Like most others with similar interests, second-hand clothing was my ticket into the fascinating world of fashion and clothes. I could pinpoint the places, the feel,...
Continue reading...I might be addicted to data
Hello to everyone and thank you for being here in Data Addicts Anonymous, My name is Aylin, I have been addicted to data for the past...
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PODCAST: politics and social media.
We’re living in a world of increasing political tensions. How does social media use influence the way we go about political discussion? Do we need to...
Continue reading...Username Choice in eBay: Will it Sell More?
When you want to log in or sign in to any website or digital services, more often than not you are asked to provide a username....
Continue reading...How NOT to act on social media during war
Before starting this writing, I just want to state that this is not a political writing, and I am not picking sides. The examples given are...
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