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Weight Loss Applications and Affordances: Datafying Our Bodies

Weight Loss Applications and Affordances: Datafying Our Bodies

Feeling Unhealthy? There’s an App For That. The diet industry and media have long created body image insecurities in consumers (Messer et al.). Through the decades’ individuals have coveted the body ideal marketed to them and sought out products...
Search engine, knowledge, and COVID-19

Search engine, knowledge, and COVID-19

It is not so surprising anymore to know that the globally used search engine Google is ineffective and unreliable in many aspects, despite the fact that it is still one of the main sources of information nowadays. After all,...