Feb 24, 2020
Elliot Taylor is the Founder and Executive Director of Live For Tomorrow, a project that's on a mission to prevent suicide on social media ~
Elliot Taylor has been working with young people for over a decade. When he started to notice that they were putting out signals of serious distress on social media, rather than...
Feb 17, 2020
We're all guilty of tagging brands and locations in our social posts (even if it's done for ironic effect). And as brands get savvier at honing in on all levels of potential influence for branded collaborations, it can seem like social media is less a social platform - and more a sales catalogue.
Chris Henry recently...
Feb 10, 2020
Gerry Parke is an artist whose work unpacks masculinity as a construct ~
If we looked hard enough, we'd all find embarrassing photos of ourselves that exist both online and offline. But what happens when you've moved on from a certain stage of your life and photos of you are shared without warning or permission?
When a...
Feb 2, 2020
Alex Beattie is a PHD Student studying the manufacture of disconnection ~
We've all joked about spending so much time on Facebook that we must be addicted before - but the further down the rabbit hole we go, the more serious this joke seems.
What happens when technologies that enable connection make us feel...
Feb 2, 2020
Kaila Tova is a PHD student, drag artist and host of the Your Body, Your Brand Podcast ~
You'd assume that the trend of women dropping out of the workforce to pursue online brands is a good thing. After all, what's more inspiring than a person taking charge of their own path?
But as Kaila Tova tells us, this trend is...