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How our Online Identity Is at odds with Censorship: the Problem of Being “Potentially Inappropriate”

How our Online Identity Is at Odds with Censorship: the Problem of Being “Potentially Inappropriate”

Looking for information regarding online censorship will show results dating from 2011 to this day. It’s been more than a decade since information is not simply being moderated but communities are being silenced, if not erased, and they have reacted to this by self-censoring their images and enacting ways of talking about the issue without mentioning it — by using encoded words such as "nip nops" and "unalive."

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The Books of Magic – Did DC Comics invent Harry Potter before J.K. Rowling?

When author J.K Rowling published her first novel of the now world famous series of fantasy novels about young wizard Harry Potter – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone –  she opened a gateway into a magical world that since then has expanded into a universe of spin off media, several books and merchandise. Rowlings […]

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MTV’s Heyday Made Black Artists Prominent: or Was it the Other Way Around?

MTV’s Heyday Made Black Artists Prominent: or Was it the Other Way Around?

Back in the ‘80s American popular culture was at odds with Black culture and these principles showed in the video rotation of MTV. But it all changed when the King of Pop took the stage.

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SINGLISM – ARE YOU HERE ALONE?

A noisy pond of humans in the field. I put on a strained smile. A stranger stares at me waiting for my answer. I look down at the wrinkled mushroom caps that just got squished. In between the silence a swarm of words rush through me. Are you here alone? A BBC report estimates 52% of UK adults experienced single shaming since the start of the pandemic. There is a deficit bias in society that considers singletons to be in a transitional period rather than in a state of contentment. Normative Idealization and Matrimania are based around the idea that there are ‘standards of relationships’ that cannot be changed. While social norms compete with each other, people are beginning to shed their patriarchal pasts and leave Singlism behind.

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Young and Fabulous: Title Talks With Claudia Valentina

The rising singer-songwriter Claudia Valentina should be on everybody’s radar. Here is why she is on ours: We caught up with the confident emerging artist to hear all about her journey so far. Your career started from a quite early age. How have you grown as an artist?Since I learned to talk I’ve had the […]

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