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BeReal Blog Post

The Performance of Authenticity: BeReal and Digital Identity

An exploration of BeReal's promise of authenticity and how the platform's rules shape user behavior. Despite claiming to reduce pressure to perform, BeReal creates a different kind of performance where users strive to appear both spontaneous and interesting.

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Queer Gaming Blog Post

Beyond Representation: Queerness in Video Games

This analysis examines how queerness in video games extends beyond visible LGBTQ representation, exploring how gameplay mechanics and player engagement can embody queer experiences and challenge dominant norms.

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Netflix Algorithms Blog Post

Race and Algorithms: How Netflix Personalizes the Viewing Experience

This analysis examines how Netflix's recommendation algorithm shapes racialized user experiences, particularly how algorithmic personalization produces race-conscious marketing tactics despite claims of neutrality.

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Digital Mourning Blog Post

Digital Mourning as Activism: From Grief to Social Change

An exploration of how digital mourning transforms into collective action in social movements, examining how online grief provides platforms for collective memory formation and activism in movements like Black Lives Matter.

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