Essays
The Allure of Identity Formation in TikTok
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TikTok has become a mainstream social media app that is connecting millions of people from around the globe. Technology has become an integral part of society’s evolution in terms of participation on a mass communication scale. Social media has been used to establish peer to peer culture by distinguishing civic responsibility and common morals. Economic growth is dependent on brand identity, and establishing niches in various regions of the world. Identity formation has become digitally recognised as individuals rely on their social media accounts to connect them to peers and strangers, and garner them acknowledgement throughout the online social media world. This essay will analyse how TikTok influences identity formation through community engagement, and selfie culture.
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How Facebook Took the World by Storm and The Social Network Took the World by Score
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The Social Network is your untypical story, about your atypical character, that is scored in an unconventional way. Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor, composers of the film, opted to experiment with electronic sounds that have deep, dark undertones in order to capture the feeling of the film. This contrasts other movies that depend on a classically arranged score with instruments to entice the audience into feeling like they are a part of the action. This landscape of sound enabled Ross and Reznor to create a triptych theme song that resonates with the character’s story arc, which is both unstable and uncertain. The Social Network score is essential to the plot because it narrates the protagonist’s arc along his divisive journey using a repetitive melody driven by disjointed sounds and cues, and it enhances the competitive aspect of the major action sequence by playing with various dynamics and tempo.
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Bombshell: An Explosive Dismantling of Social Injustices within American Politics
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We’ve all heard the story of the big bad wolf but why isn’t anyone talking about the story of the big bad fox? Well, now they are. Bombshell is a 2019 biographical drama that tells the story of Roger Ailes, the former mogul head of Fox News, who built the network into a billion-dollar global empire. The film chronicles the scandal that shook Fox after anchor Gretchen Carlson was fired from the network and filed a sexual harassment lawsuit. Hailed for indicting one of medias most powerful figures, Gretchen’s allegations eventually prompted dozens of other victims to come forward against Ailes garnering significant momentum for the #MeToo movement.
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How the Stigma around Substance Abuse Impacts Homelessness
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Whether or not one lives on the streets, homelessness affects us all. Homelessness has been considered a crisis since the 1980’s in Canada (Piat et at., 2366). Alongside the problem of housing, can sometimes come the issue of addiction. To complicate matters further, when it comes to addiction, many users can be suffering from mental health issues. The complex nature attached to substance abuse and mental illness can have a greater impact on finding housing by increasing the difficulty of those struggling to obtain adequate help. Substance abuse increases the stigma around homelessness, which complicates one’s ability to find safe housing.
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