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“Blue Tick Brigade”: A critique of Twitter’s verification system as a shaper of online self-presentation

“Blue Tick Brigade”: A critique of Twitter’s verification system as a shaper of online self-presentation

By Agustín Ferrari Braun, Eleni Maragkou, Marie-Liesse H, Shivaani Gore Over the course of the past years, politics in Europe and the United States have become increasingly concerned with the nature of online personhood. Only last month, the far-right...
By Eleni Maragkou on 10/24/19 Comments Off on “Blue Tick Brigade”: A critique of Twitter’s verification system as a shaper of online self-presentation
Mediating Veganism: A look at vegan self-presentation on Instagram

Mediating Veganism: A look at vegan self-presentation on Instagram

Veganism is an alternative food diet and lifestyle that aims to exclude, as far as possible any exploitation and cruelty to animals for food, clothing, or other by-products (The Vegan Society). A cursory search on Google Trends reveals that...
By Amber de Zeeuw on 10/25/17 Comments Off on Mediating Veganism: A look at vegan self-presentation on Instagram

Social Network Sites as Stages of ‘Dramaturgical Performance’ – Interpretation Sketch

A study of the University of Georgia describes as more likely to be narcissist those Facebook users who have a large number of friends and wallposts, narcissism in this case being defined as an emphasis on self-promotion and quantity...
By Liliana Bounegru on 10/06/08 Comments Off on Social Network Sites as Stages of ‘Dramaturgical Performance’ – Interpretation Sketch