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  • Laura Burlacu
  • Url: http://navamalika.deviantart.com/
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: I am 21 years old, come from Romania, and in the last three years I've studied Integrated Social Sciences at Jacobs University Bremen. Longing for a change of pace, I moved to Amsterdam to study New Media at the UvA. Pictures are soon to follow...

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The end of television as we know it?

Laura Burlacu | 31 October 2011, 9:58 pm | tags: , ,

Will traditional television soon become obsolete? Probably not. But it does seem that corporate giant Google is making yet another move towards achieving this goal. As of last Friday it has been announced that YouTube (video-sharing website owned by Google) will come out with 100 new online TV channels which will be produced by celebrities (such as Jay-Z,…

The art of levitation – an interview with Zuzana Hnídková

Laura Burlacu | 31 October 2011, 7:19 pm | tags: , , , ,

Sugar, spice and everything nice. These are the first words that come to mind when going through Zuzana Hnídková’s fashion blog, Salad of my life. The 23 year-old Czech is known for her stunning levitation photos, which have gained her a growing audience of savvy online shoppers, who appreciate compelling photographs, have a strong fashion

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App review: Do you really want to know who unfriended you on Facebook?

Laura Burlacu | 13 October 2011, 5:55 pm

For many people Facebook has become a integral part of their daily routine, helping them keep in touch with friends, relatives, friends of friends and sometimes people they have never really met in real life, but who they know about only from others (let’s admit it, we all have a few people who, no matter how hard we try, we…

How do YouTube personalities change in response to fame

Laura Burlacu | 05 October 2011, 9:30 pm | tags: ,

One social media website that has more or less gone under the radar since the 2008 Facebook boom is the now-classic YouTube. While social media research has recently focused its efforts predominantly on Facebook and Twitter, where personal identities appear more clearly,  YouTube has been left rather untouched, despite the fact that it is still developing at a steady pace…

Book review: Television as Digital Media, edited by James Benett and Niki Strange

Laura Burlacu | 22 September 2011, 2:00 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Fig.1. Television as Digital Media book cover. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/3d3g2ly.

Have you ever wondered how remote controls have influences television viewers’ patterns across the years, or how the original Star Trek series has forever changed production patterns within the industry? If you have, then the 2011 Television as Digital Media book is for you. And if your…

The shopping revolution

Laura Burlacu | 14 September 2011, 10:17 am | tags: , , , , ,

Twenty-plus kilograms suitcase in hand, tackling what seemed to be the longest staircase that had ever been placed in a train station that featured four platforms and no elevators, I started thinking: when did I but all this stuff?

Being in a situation where, for the second time in my life, I had to “relocate” to a new country for…