Social media are channels used for interactions between different people, groups, and individuals alike, in order to create, share and exchange ideas and information. Social media helps to build virtual networks and online communities. The main social media channels worldwide are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
Dear readers, Thank you for your loyalty throughout these months of our blog posting live from Scotland, Malawi, Australia, Jordan, and Singapore. As with every great story, it needs to reach a (happy?) end. While we are all moving on with our lives, both online and offline, we have decided …
Revolution has started in the rain Dear readers, in the early autumn 2016 on the 3rd of October, rivers of black umbrellas moved through streets of Polish cities and towns. It was a rainy day so an umbrella served a practical role, and soon after became a symbol of a …
Dear readers, in June 2020, one blurry and unsophisticated TikTok video by a 51-year-old #TikTokGrandma (Laupp, 2020; Magid 2020), derailed Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when it went viral and mobilised people to falsely register for the stadium event, leaving a majority of the event’s seats empty. In the …
Dear readers, an investigation from the British Broadcasting Corporation – the BBC – has found that Syrian families have been livestreaming on the popular social media platform TikTok, which has a user count of more than 1 billion in 154 countries (Ruby, 2022), for several hours daily. These families, however, …
Dear readers, it seems like the bad news never stop coming. First, we read them in the newspapers, then on the radio and television, on our computer screens, and in recent years on the display of tiny devices that were promised to bring us so much joy and which should …
Dear readers, I wanted to see if I could find one coherent, up-to-date, interesting, and relevant article/podcast/essay that delves into my topic of choice: fake news/misinformation/digital overload. I didn’t find *one*. Just published in the last month, I found: 3,900,000 results for the term “misinformation” 3,810,000 results for the term …
Dear readers, I’m an experienced broadcast journalist and now a Communications Specialist in the development sector, but never before have I had to invest so much of my identity to produce such brief content as for my 13-second video for this blog (go on, watch and have a giggle). One …
Dear readers, recently, I came across an interesting conversation between Jeffrey Masters from the LGBTQ&A podcast and Adam Eli, author of the book The New Queer Conscience, activist and community organiser with over 100k followers on Instagram and 6.5k followers on Twitter. Jeffrey comes from quite a questioning perspective, one …
When you feel done with social media but… Dear readers, researching online and digital activism from the point of view of a person who tries to avoid social media as much as possible seems like an interesting task in itself. I do have Facebook and Instagram accounts although my activity …
Dear readaers, it is a lazy Saturday and a lazy Saturday means I’m probably watching TikTok number 372. Sounds like a lot, it probably is. But then I do know now how I can cook the perfect crispy chicken, how I should let go of what weighs me down, how …
