mainstream

RuPaul Selling Out: Undermining the Diversity of Drag Culture

Article
Michelle Saris
03/05/2023
12 minutes to read

RuPaul's Drag Race brought lots of attention to drag outside of the drag community. This paper looks at how RuPaul's Drag Race takes its place in mainstream media.

How eSports became mainstream

Paper
Lucas Westphall
21/12/2018
18 minutes to read

This paper tries to uncover the reason behind the impact globalization has on eSports, the impact eSport have on globalization and how Twitch.TV helps enhance this. 

Momo

How Momo shows us that anyone can dig in our data

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
28/08/2018
4 minutes to read

Momo has been said to be a curse, a hacker and even a maniac. What is it and does it know everything about us? 

Girls taking selfies

Plastic surgery and the quest for the perfect selfie in South Korea

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
20/03/2018
15 minutes to read

Plastic surgeries changed the world. In this article, we are going to talk about the measures taken to make an ordinary picture on your Instagram account “on point” and what some are willing to do in order to score those 10.000+ likes.

GetContact app

GetContact: another threat to our privacy?

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
02/03/2018
5 minutes to read

GetContact is a recent app that got its wave of hype in February 2018. The official aim of GetContact is to block spam messages and identify calls on your phone. However, it can also be viewed as another way to threaten our privacy.

Voguing

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The LGBTQ community and voguing

Article
Heleen Dijkhuizen
15/03/2017
4 minutes to read

When voguing entered the mainstream, the connection between the LGBTQ community and voguing changed.