Opinion: Why I Deleted my Instagram and Haven’t Looked Back
One day in December 2018, in the throes of the tail end of my first semester of graduate school, I examined my iPhone’s Screen Time application. This new iOS app had been introduced not too long ago, just earlier in the year. What I saw left a knot in my stomach. I couldn’t believe it! […]
A Failed Instagram Experiment.
Back in the summer, I had what I thought was an excellent idea. I would open a new Instagram account and, for one month, try to live life like an influencer. I hoped it would be an experiment that shed some light on the impact living a public digital life could have on a person. […]
Digital Grievance
Digital Grievance By Dominique Rivera For anyone born in or after 2004, Facebook has been active for their entire lives. For some, there has never been an option not to have a digital identity. From the moment they were born, their parents were posting their baby pictures online. Trying to have control over your own […]
DT Podcast: Episodes 3, Social Media and Santa Ono, is now available
The Digital Tattoo Podcast: Episode 3, Social Media and Santa Ono In this episode, we sit down with the President of the University of British Columbia and talk about everything social media. Professor Santa Ono uses Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Youtube, and Facebook to communicate with students, faculty, and staff. We discuss how he came to […]
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