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Manosphere

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The manosphere is a multifaceted online subculture that centers around discussions of masculinity, gender dynamics, and men’s issues, drawing from a diverse collection of websites, blogs, and online forums that promote masculinity, often in opposition to feminism. While the specifics of each group’s beliefs sometimes conflict, they are generally united in the belief that society is biased against men due to the influence of feminism, and that feminists promote misandry (hatred of men).

Social Media

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Social Media is “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of User Generated Content” (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010).

Cancel Culture

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Cancel Culture encapsulates the acts of withholding support or endorsement from individuals or institutions on social media due to a collective disagreement or disapproval of their actions, beliefs, or behaviors.

BookTok

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BookTok is a sub-community of TikTok that caters to book enthusiasts. Here, they can share their book reviews, recommendations, and other book-related content.

Selfie

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Weng Marc Lim defines the ‘selfie’ as “a self-expressive photograph featuring the photographer as the primary individual” in a “background that is consciously created, modified and shared with others”.

Audience Labour

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likes, shares, clicks, comments, views, posts, only data to gain more visibility in the hybrid media system (Maly, 2020)

Junk News

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Junk news is news that is consumed and goes viral not because it is relevant or appreciated, but because it is addictive (Venturini, 2019).

Media Frames

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Media frames in the context of mass-media communication refers to the way interpretations of a message are encouraged or discouraged. It was first introduced by Erving Goffman in 1974 through his book, ‘Frame Analysis’.

Frame

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A frame is a set of meaningful signs connected to specific types of social action. Together they create a 'logic' of action and make the action understandable for those involved in it.

Formats

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Formats are recognizably patterned forms of behavior, subject to norms and judged accordingly by others.
Youtube AI

The YouTube algorithm and its problems

Video
Joël Eduard Nicholas Grassère
06/10/2023

The Youtube algorithm is often criticized.  This video explains why it is problematic. The data that it uses is wrong and the algorithm itself is problematic. However, there is also an issue concerning interpretation.

Instagram poetry posts

The influence of Instagram’s affordances on Instapoetry: the characteristics of a literary genre born on social media

Article
Mirte Glasbergen
04/09/2024
23 minutes to read

This article examines the influence of Instagram’s affordances on Instapoetry by combining literary research and digital culture studies. The study suggests that Instapoetry underlines the presence of Instagram as a global, universal platform.

Sophie Scholl from the history books to Instagram

@IamSophieScholl: Instagram meets 1942

Article
Nathalie Schabio
11/09/2023
12 minutes to read

@IamSophieScholl is a multimedia project that brings Sophie Scholl from the history books into the present through the affordances of social media. This article unravels the tension between fact and fiction inherent in the project. 

Bearing witness online: How hashtags enabled an uprising in Iran

Paper
Prajakta Athlekar
05/06/2023
15 minutes to read

This paper explores how the fearless citizens of Iran are bearing witness every single day and strengthening the revolution through witness footage, hashtag framing, and authenticity. 

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BeReal: How Authenticity Turns into Violation of Privacy

Article
Anna Skorodihina
22/09/2023
13 minutes to read

This article looks at how the new social media platform BeReal structures its app to enforce what is called an expository society through behaviour modification and how it plays into societies of control, compromising user privacy.

A person using a tablet and stylus to draw

DeviantArt and AI: The showdown between manual playbour and automated playbour

Paper
Pak Wing Ng
27/11/2023
15 minutes to read

By looking at DeviantArt and its no-AI alternative Side 7, the article explores an issue of the security of users' artwork with the rise of AI art generators, as well as the way the platforms deal with artwork protection. 

A.I. Music and Identity Shaping: Soulless Computer Music Versus Soulful Human Music

Article
Wessel Joosten
04/09/2023
17 minutes to read

Artificial Intelligence in the music industry has been growing in public discourse. Can A.I. music get on par with traditional music and shape similar social identities?