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The Male Gaze in the Age of TikTok

The male gaze, first theorised by Laura Mulvey (1975), describes how visual media positions women as objects…

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Manufacturing Consent in the Platform Era: Rethinking Media Power Today

Manufacturing Consent Revisited Herman and Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent (1988) remains a foundational critique of how media systems…

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Avatars of the Self: Crafting Who We Are Online

In a world where likes, filters, and algorithms quietly sculpt our digital lives, the question of who we…

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🎭 The Culture Industry in the Age of Algorithms: Are We Consuming or Being Consumed?

The term “culture industry” was coined by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). They argued that under capitalism,…