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The Making of a Virtual Influencer
A peek behind the curtain at this million dollar industry. Can virtual influencers make a positive social impact or are they just a dystopian money-making tool from big marketing?
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A peek behind the curtain at this million dollar industry. Can virtual influencers make a positive social impact or are they just a dystopian money-making tool from big marketing?
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As Pakistan grapples with the impact of the Me Too Movement, women are choosing the gift of anonymity online to make their voices part of the change.
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Exploring the simple technology of voice recordings, and their power to connect loved ones across the globe.
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Jacklin Kwan takes a personal look at the therapeutic potentials of VR and explores how, when used in the right way, it can help people rediscover relationships with themselves and with lost loved ones.
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Zach Deocadiz, VR and XR designer, writes a personal reflection on finding self-identity and queer community through customisable web-based social media, and the technical similarities and experience design needs in VR social platforms today.
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A 'preferred futures' narrative and vision for future online experiences. From the project 'MetaversEngine', a collaboration between Awarri and UWE Bristol - funded by MyWorld.
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Chanté Joseph asks if Clubhouse can revolutionise social media without facing its own growing issues.
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Individual content creators are championing accessibility on TikTok by adding captions. But should social media platforms be doing more to make their content universal?
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File Menu Eater covers DIY efforts to archive the transient art objects and culture of the internet looking for ways to remember information technologies
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Artist in residence, Harriet Horobin-Worley, explores how the garden is a way of reflecting on our own place in the ecosystem of technology
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Four people with lived experience of the UK's hostile environment towards migrants co-produce this fascinating virtual panel event.
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A brilliant panel of artists and activists explore the mainstreaming of allyship and how it impacts radical changemaking.
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To compensate for generations of lost family history, poet and writer Ashanti Anderson turns to deepfake technology to connect with three members of her family.
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K-pop's global army of fans have used technology to connect with their favourite artists for the past two decades – and have changed the internet for everyone.
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Who plays 'unspeakable' games, and who gets to police what is labelled 'obscene' on the internet? Issue 3 Resident Oma Keeling's remarkable film will take you down the rabbit hole.
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Tope Olufemi draws on personal experiences, Legacy Russell's 'Glitch Feminism' and a conversation with writer Lola Olufemi in locating Blackness, queerness and resistance at key points of online and AFK complication.
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An interview with Keval Harie, Director of GALA Queer Archive
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Container's first social media campaign explored deepfakes and our collective understanding of them.
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Bailey Miller proposes a new form of social media for connecting before doctor's appointments, inspired by the deep dissatisfaction around current communications tech.
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An audio essay by Tam Lines on the affect machines of social media and the low quality videos that draw their attention to a potential rebirth of all knowing.
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Hannah Uguru explores digital nostalgia, interviewing John Koenig about the phenomenon as an extension of his concept of anemoia - nostalgia for things not experienced.