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TikTok's inverted filter: debunking symmetry as beauty standard

Paper

Kelly Burnet

07/11/2022

10 minutes to read

In this paper, discourse analysis is done on two TikTok entries to the inverted filter trend that became very popular in April 2021. By showing facial asymmetry as normal, Aubrey Ober gave a twist to the trend and recycled the trend's meaning.

A couple's flipflops laying on the beach with a love heart drawn in the sand

“He’s a 10 But…” Discussing Relationship Discourse Online

Article

Clara Daniels

15/03/2023

10 minutes to read

This article shows how easily consumable trends such as “He’s a 10 but…” contribute to building dating discourse around an unachievable ideal and actively invite the audience to judge the statements made by the women involved in these interviews.

Whistleblowing: Sophie Zhang vs. Facebook

Paper

Lara Lovrič

28/11/2022

10 minutes to read

What can a single individual change by exposing the wrongdoings of a successful multinational corporation? This paper examines the case of a whistleblower who uncovered integrity violations and political manipulation facilitated by Facebook.

Identity Exploration in 'How to Be Ace': Otherness and Self in a Sex-Normative World

Paper

Semmy Claassen

08/09/2023

26 minutes to read

Explore Burgess's How to Be Ace memoir, revealing asexuality's othering in society. Multimodal analysis and imagology unveil identity challenges.

Anti-Chinese tech discourse

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“He’s a 10 But…” Discussing Relationship Discourse Online

Article

Clara Daniels

15/03/2023

10 minutes to read

This article shows how easily consumable trends such as “He’s a 10 but…” contribute to building dating discourse around an unachievable ideal and actively invite the audience to judge the statements made by the women involved in these interviews.

Pulse's main character Kudo Michi looks back at a human-shaped ash stain on the wall

Techno-horror and Hauntology: Pulse’s cry for help in a technologically dependent world

Paper

Paige Christianne Andres

08/04/2022

8 minutes to read

Pulse explores themes of the unknown and loneliness on the Internet. This article explores how this film uses techno-horror and its ghosts as a metaphor for our perception of and attitude towards technology, the Internet, and the unknown.

Freedom is slavery: Apple’s 1984 Ad Forty Years On

Article

Julian Hanna

24/01/2024

8 minutes to read

Imagine one of the most shareable clips you’ve ever seen … and now imagine seeing it only once. That's exactly what happened to many of the people who watched Apple's "1984" television commercial during the Super Bowl. In this article, Julian Hanna reflects on the event.

Schliengensief's participatory art project holds up a distorting mirror to Austria's political landscape in the 2000s

Schlingensief's Big Brother of Xenophobia: Antagonism in participatory art

Article

Nathalie Schabio

27/09/2023

11 minutes to read

Schlingensief's participatory art installation "Bitte liebt Österreich" holds up a confronting mirror to Austria's political and social landscape in the 2000s by illustrating 21st-century fascism in a critically thought-provoking manner.

Maptivism: how Strava affords identity work

Column

Ruben den Boer

16/06/2022

6 minutes to read

Self-tracking can be used for identity work. In this essay, I explore how a self-tracking app I use - Strava - affords identity work through slacktivist discourse affordances.

A look into the reason behind K-pop's never ending popularity

Paper

Mehreen Sarfaraz

10/05/2023

8 minutes to read

While K-pop groups have gained popularity around the world, we can wonder: is K-pop really still Korean? This paper looks into the impact of globalization on the rise of K-pop on a global scale.

APESHIT: The Carters versus Globalization and Art

Paper

Jaimy Pijpers

10/02/2023

10 minutes to read

An analysis of the music video of APESHIT by the Carters. The music video criticizes the Western monopolization of Art. This paper analyses the music video through the perspective of McDonaldization, Colonialism, Art history, and World Art.

A deep dive into the pinky glove scandal

Pinky Glove: A feminist analysis of the menstrual status quo and digital menstrual activism

Article

Nathalie Schabio

06/09/2023

13 minutes to read

The Pinky Glove proves that periods are a societal taboo topic. This article is a deep dive into how German media reinforces menstruation stigma and stereotypes and how digital menstrual activism combats the negative menstrual status quo.

“Netflix finally gets me”: algorithmic imaginary of Netflix users

Article

Olga Koltsova

08/01/2022

10 minutes to read

Netflix algorithmic personalization makes users experience different feelings. What people feel towards algorithms makes them change their algorithmic practices thus changing and shaping the algorithms.

Code red: Rupi Kaur’s menstrual activism that invited online trolls

Article

Jessaline Tanjung

17/02/2023

12 minutes to read

This article breaks down Rupi Kaur's online menstrual activism. We see how menstrual activism evolved into online activism and discuss whether the negative comments and trolling Kaur experienced are inevitable consequences of activism.

A frame from Miranda July's Somebody movie

Miranda’s July Relational and Participatory Art

Article

Szymon Zbiegniewski

24/10/2022

10 minutes to read

In 2014 Miranda July created a project that asked a question about how difficult it is to approach strangers. In this paper, I analyze this project through relational aesthetics and participatory art.

Instagram Poetry: Am I Good Enough for my Own Endeavor?

Article

Audrey Frijns

14/10/2022

8 minutes to read

Poetry on Instagram is becoming increasingly popular. This article explores if poetry can truly shake its connotations with elitism and how Instagram pages attract an audience that performs visibility labor.