Category: Content Report
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A Brief History of “Touhou Style” (and Some Remarks) – Makoto Brown
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10YC06XP-A5xy2pIoBlR8hYf0Qqw3IyKK4XfKUw6BxTA/edit?usp=sharing Even though I came up with it, I originally wasn’t going to do this topic, but then I saw this: And I thought, maybe there’s something to this. Or maybe this is just me nerding out about a fandom-in-a-fandom-in-a-fandom I’m part of for 30 slides. I can’t really tell.
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Social Commerce
Social commerce has to do with selling products on social media platforms. A lot of small businesses have been popping up on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok. The platform I wanted to focus on is Instagram. There’s a wide variety of products being sold on Instagram — I’ve seen shops for custom shoes,…
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Can I Copy Your HW? – Leo Ramirez
The trend of social medias copying each other has been going on for a long time ever since Instagram launched stories way back in 2016 copying Snapchat’s most prominent feature “stories”. The most recent attempt at this has been Twitter with “fleets”. However it did not last long and twitter shut it down in July…
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Mystery Boxes! – Xinyue Zhang
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QKtYIX0hsQo00Zpf2rSvKfmgh7vYmH2t9YW6f3dnLHg/edit?usp=sharing
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Influencers Doing the Least
I first noticed this trend on Instagram in the wake of the Black Lives Movement protests happening across the country (2020). I mainly saw it on platforms like Instagram where influencers would try and fail at performative activism for likes or views. This report is specifically addressing those types of performative actions that make the…
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Clone-dle: The Explosion of Daily Copycats
The viral daily word game that took Twitter and the world by storm has only been live for around 6 months at this point but it has already gained enough popularity for it to have been bought by the New York Times for seven figures and popular enough for it to have spawned a large…
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Wigglegrams: How a 30+ Year Old Camera Became Relevant Again – Seb F.
What is a wigglegram? It’s a gif-video-image-thing made of several photos taken from several angles. These photos are then all fixed on some point, and looped through infinitely. It’s a bit like rendering a photo in 3D. Here’s some examples taken by me. Quick History About Stereoscopy and Making 2D Look 3D Stereoscopy is the…
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Aspirational content – Zoe de Leon
Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CvzI9Llm5o-AM8soxdrfK10Ei7MyANzofB0Lw78b9ls/edit?usp=sharing
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Gamified Content in Media – Emmeline Tantry
Congratulations! New achievement unlocked. Words that indeed spark joy for many people. The gamification of non-game content is not a new concept, as it can be seen in many things that we do. For instance, Loyalty Stamp Cards or simple to-do lists. Today, much of the media that we interact with has since followed suit,…
NEW LENSES: Experimental Capture and Release 