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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.

Gamification Has Turned Connecting With Others Into a Game – How Helpful Is It Really?

Paper

Iris Olde Hampsink

19/10/2022

13 minutes to read

This article discusses Tinder's game design elements, its variable rewards, and the power relations between Tinder and its users that permeate the app.

A frame from Miranda July's Somebody movie

Miranda’s July Relational and Participatory Art

Article

Szymon Zbiegniewski

24/10/2022

9 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.

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.

How WhatsApp's privacy policy raises major concerns

Article

Nathalie Schabio

30/01/2023

15 minutes to read

This article looks at why people use Whatsapp given the privacy concerns around the platform. Read the article to learn about the connection between the expository society, the lack of privacy, and participatory surveillance.

Samsung Health: How self-tracking trivialises our ethical concerns

Article

Angela Veltman

06/02/2023

11 minutes to read

The high level of data sharing has become a common practice. This essay examines the Samsung Health application and its benefits and disadvantages on the users, using gamification, behaviour modification and surveillance capitalism.

Data-driven shopping: Nike's House of Innovation

Article

Femke van Bree

20/02/2023

10 minutes to read

Allegedly, Nike's HOI stores are ''the future of retail''. These data-driven stores offer a digitalized customer experience that is unlike anything else. What are the implications of Nike's data usage and is this usage ethical?

How the QR code became a meaning-making practice during COVID-19

Article

Tinka Krikke

Laurinda Bokma

Simone Sprangers

02/05/2022

10 minutes to read

In this article, we analyze the corona QR code as a meaning-making practice and discuss its effects on society. The QR code was implemented to reduce the spread of COVID, but it's digital nature and meaning had an impact on society's resilience.