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Is Social Media Making us More Superficial than Ever?

As I was scrolling through Instagram for the thousandth time today, I realised how incredibly beautiful everything was. Granted that here I was, sitting in front of a computer in trackies with a messy bun working on uni assignments, so I…

Yak About Yik Yak

As children we all remember sitting in a circle at lunchtime, whispering a crude message to a friend that was passed through a line of people until finally the last person announced the message to the entire group. We all remember snickering when, (a) our fellow friend announced the word ‘weiner’…

#⃣ 😂 Emoji and Online Communication 🙌

Starting in April 2015, Instagram allowed its users to add emoij icons to hashtags, which brings us one step closer to communicating without words. I think that everyone knows what an emoji is — those widely-used mobile device smileys. The development of…

Instagrams Double Standard Community Standards

Instagram, the photo-sharing platform who’s many users have come to have a love/hate relationship with. With over 150 million users at the end of 2013, Instagram is a well-known, often controversial social network. As with any online community…

Mastering the Art of #FoodPorn

What is food porn I hear you ask? According to Wikipedia the term first appeared in 1984 in Rosalind Coward’s book Female Desire, in which she writes:

Cooking food and presenting it beautifully is an act of servitude. It is a way of expressing…