After a groundbreaking lawsuit against Match was filed this past Valentine's Day, our usage of and dependency on dating apps has found itself in flux. Yesterday it felt like we were singing the praises of the relative ease in digitally connecting strangers for pleasurable pursuits. How did we get here?
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Professor of Participatory Culture at Tallinn University and Professor II at IMK, Katrin Tiidenberg, hosted a talk in november called: Pleasure, Pain and Politics - Let’s Talk About Sex On Social Media. Based on findings from her book Sex & Social Media, Tiidenberg discussed how social media platforms both afford certain behaviour and moderate us.
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Watertok is just the most recent trickle down trend from our generation’s greater issue regarding diet culture. Weight loss tips and body trends have simultaneously become more covert and also casually medicalized. Ozempic, an injectable medication that the FDA says is “approved to lower blood sugar levels in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus, in addition to diet and exercise”, has taken the internet by storm.
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Instagram’s frequent use of shadow banning of sex work adjacent performers and artists’ profiles has major repercussions, bringing to the forefront the platform’s censorship laws and their arbitrary usage.
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