I recently ran an interactive “Make a Zine” project on Bluesky. For this project, I wanted to empower people to stop passively doomscrolling on social media and instead actively create zines as physical media that they can hold in their hands. I wanted to show people that their voices matter and they can have anContinue reading “Make a Zine Project”
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On Social Media, You Are the Product. Can That Change?
Lewis (2010) wrote, “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold” (para. 3). This is the case for social media. Major corporations do not altruistically provide us with social media to help us connect. Rather, they do so to make money off of our attention and data.Continue reading “On Social Media, You Are the Product. Can That Change?”
What If I Don’t Want to Be Perceived?
What I am struggling with the most about social media these days is that it feels as though we have to make ourselves the centre of whatever we post, and most of the time, I don’t want to be perceived. I want to share my art, but I often don’t want to be seen. IContinue reading “What If I Don’t Want to Be Perceived?”
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