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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?
Human Adventures
in Creative Technology
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K-Pop Culture: The Power of 6.7 Billion Tweets
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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Window to a Betterverse
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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F*ck the Algorithm: Online Collectives Building Community IRL
Emily Cook talks to Ever Glowing and Cute Cartel, two dance based performance collectives who've formed in person groups for addressing confidence in sensuality, support and resisting normative narratives.
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Anonymous Accounts are Leading the Me Too Movement in Pakistan
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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Archiving the Ephemeral: Guerilla New Media Art Preservation
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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Sound On: Exploring the Rise of Clubhouse and Audio-Only Apps
Chanté Joseph asks if Clubhouse can revolutionise social media without facing its own growing issues.
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The Sound of Intimacy
Exploring the simple technology of voice recordings, and their power to connect loved ones across the globe.
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Who Plays Unspeakable Games?
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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Life After Death: Should Virtual Reality be used to help us Grieve?
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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Deep Nostalgia
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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Ideas in their Becoming: On Low Quality Video Edits
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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Podcast: Archiving Queer Erasure
An interview with Keval Harie, Director of GALA Queer Archive
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Taking Up Space: Conversations About Digital Activism
A brilliant panel of artists and activists explore the mainstreaming of allyship and how it impacts radical changemaking.
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Sick Socials: Designing Against the Infinite Feed
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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Podcast: Digital Nostalgias – Anemoia Online
Hannah Uguru explores digital nostalgia, interviewing John Koenig about the phenomenon as an extension of his concept of anemoia - nostalgia for things not experienced.
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Blackness, Glitch Feminism and Evasion
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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Decoding Deepfakes
Container's first social media campaign explored deepfakes and our collective understanding of them.
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Virtuality As Becoming
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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Caption This
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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Poem.garden
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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We Cannot Walk Alone
Four people with lived experience of the UK's hostile environment towards migrants co-produce this fascinating virtual panel event.