Saint or Sufferer?: Challenging Caricatures of Surrogates Transnationally
Kaja Aagaard In 2010, Vaishali Sinha and Rebecca Haimowitz set out to tell the stories of Indian surrogates in a rich documentary about...
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Grace Kellogg
Mar 7, 20215 min read
“Distractibaking”: Kneading Ideas of Comfort and Care
Grace Kellogg On the surface, our kitchen resembled an Instagram-worthy image of a quarantine well spent. Covered in flour and still in...
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Anna Wood
Nov 17, 20204 min read
From Turmeric Shots to the Chia Café Collective: Critically Rethinking Wellness Culture
Anna Wood This past summer, I was interning at a food access organization in Vermont when I came across a row of bottles in the corner of...
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Amun Chaudhary
Aug 21, 20203 min read
Pakistani Feminism and Instagram Models
Amun Chaudhary Pakistani Feminism, much like Pakistani culture, is both rich and layered in diversity. The most recent development is...
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Katie van der Merwe
Aug 20, 20205 min read
Body Anonymity in the Culture of Remote Work
Katie van der Merwe The coronavirus has had widespread effects, including enormous consequences on the culture and methods of...
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Jaya Singh
Aug 20, 20204 min read
Community Wellness and Social Justice in Online Spiritual Activism
Jaya Singh During these tumultuous times, countless online discussions related to self-help and mental health care have become...
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Emma Bernstein
Aug 19, 20203 min read
“Hips TikTok when I dance, on that Demon Time she might start an OnlyFans” Sex Work and TikTok
Emma Bernstein Mia Khalifa is potentially one of the most noticeable case studies for the overlap between TikTok, a new social media...
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Claire Martens
Aug 19, 20204 min read
To Whoever Threw That Tear Gas...
Claire Martens A six second viral video from 2014 gifted us an iconic phrase that many know: “whoever threw that paper, your moms a hoe”....
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Anneliese Mills
Aug 19, 20206 min read
Learning Anatomy Online
Anneliese Mills The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada has had widespread consequences for the organization of health care services and medical...
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Natasha Cuneo
Aug 19, 20204 min read
Agency and Duplicity Online: A Tale of Two Influencers
Natasha Cuneo In early June, Toronto-based influencers Jessica Mulroney and Sasha Exeter got into a very public showdown. It began when...
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Modele Kuforji
Aug 19, 20205 min read
There is no Black Panther in Brazil
Modele Kuforiji When the film Black Panther was released in Brazil in 2018, Afro-Brazilians garbed in bright African prints gathered to...
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Emilly Renaud
Aug 7, 20208 min read
"Let Me Give You Personal Attention":The Multisensorial Experience of ASMR as Feminized Digital Care
Emilly Renaud ASMRtists claim ASMR videos help audiences with anxiety, stress, depression, and insomnia, all serious mental health issues...
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Tyentyen Chen
Aug 7, 20208 min read
Beyond Food Aesthetics: Food Blogging and the Production of Authorial and Entrepreneurial Selves
Tyentyen Chen AAA/CASCA Presentation Writeup This paper was inspired by my desire to understand the rise of trendy food aesthetics in...
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Jaya Singh
Jul 17, 202015 min read
Digital Activism and Socially Conscious Online Entrepreneurship Amongst the #WitchesOfInstagram
Jaya Singh
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Brooke Iwan
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Nick Smith
Apr 11, 202010 min read
Digital Pedagogies – Experimentation as Method in the Digital Humanities
Nick Smith In this paper I’d like to think through some of the overlaps between digital anthropology, experimental methods, and pedagogy....
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Katrina Elmsley
Apr 1, 20181 min read
Microblogging and Mental Health: Affect, Personhood, and the Politics of Care on Tumblr
Katrina Elmsley
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Modele Kuforji
Apr 1, 20181 min read
Hashtags and the Materialization of Identity
Modele Kuforiji
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