Never have I ever had plastic surgery

I am probably not the only person who has been irritated because of how other people present themselves online. I won´t say that how I present myself online is the (only) right way to do it, but let me tell you something; how you present yourself online is probably more important than you think. So …

Make peace, not nomophobia

According to mobileinsurance.com we spend an average of an hour and a half on our phones each day. This equals us spending 3.9 years on our phone during a lifetime. Think about how much time that actually is. We are always connected, no exception. Did you know that your phone and internet history can tell …

Tinderella

With people using social media more than ever before, it is super easy to share things with people from all over the planet. This is really interesting; how easy it is to share things now days, and how much influence social media actually have on the audience. The bigger the celeb, the more power you …

Copycat

It seems like we today can take copyright on almost anything. YouTube took copyright on bird sounds, are you freaking kidding me? When I went to school I used to be super proud if I had bought myself a new piece of clothing, especially if it was a cool one. I remember I could the …

Disc Jokey

The Norwegian DJ Matoma mixed a song by the notorious B.I.G and Ja Rule called “old thing back“ which originally was a remix of biggies 1995 hit “one more chance”. In 2014 Matoma remixed the song and shared it on Sound cloud and Spotify. It got so many views that Matoma received a phone call …

Dialogic media and propaganda

Political propaganda is not a new term, but with the dialogic media it has been much easier to spread. Just by looking at the “#draft our daughters” that was in the wind last year, we see a perfect example of a political propaganda that was spread over the Internet in no time, with people actually …

Giving them a face

Last year a TV show was aired in Norway under the title “Helene is checking in”. In the show we are following a woman called Helene when she is visiting six different institutions and stays there for five days. She is meeting people who for various reasons have ended up under someone else’s supervision or …

Fake news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNvXtTGWQo&nbsp Okay so it is obvious that what you see in the video is not what Trump is talking about, but they are both revolving around fake news. Trump is here criticizing the media for writing things about him that (according to him) is not true. While the video is showing someone who is participating …

No cash, no flow

A digital transformation means that there is a change in things like art, mass communication or science. It is about going from analog to digital. By doing so the media changes, and because of that the message will change, according to McLuhan. Think of a watch. It used to exist just as analog but as …

Breaking news

It is a fundamental human right to be able to access information about what is going on in your country and the rest of the world. In social economic well-developed countries we have access to news from all over the world from thousands of sources. We like to think that the information that we are …