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Tech Over Talk: Addiction To Our Phones

In a world full of digital advancements and social media, we’re meant to be more ‘connected’ than ever before; the development of technology promises ‘closeness’. However, an article…

Amber Heard PSA – Speak Up

In May 2016, Amber Heard filed for a restraining order and divorce from Johnny Depp. This was following allegations that he had abused her both physically and verbally….

Childhood Of The Past Meets The Present – Disney meets YouTube

Remember those days of your childhood when you would spend those rainy afternoons snuggled on the sofa watching your Disney videos on the VCR? The days when rewinding…

Weak Relationships at The Expense of Our Strong Connections : Obsession With Virtual Friendships

We now live in a world that is more connected than ever before. Which makes it possible for us to communicate with our peers in many different forms….

Writing for the Web: 4 Essential tips for online authors

Reading online is very different from reading a physical copy of something and if you want to keep your audience interested and engaged you need to know what…

Writing for the Web: 4 Essential Tips for Online Authors

Reading online is very different from reading a physical copy of something and if you want to keep your audience interested and engaged you need to know what…

Writing for the Web: 4 tips for online authors

Reading online is very different from reading a physical copy of something and if you want to keep your audience interested and engaged you need to know what…

Social Media Addiction: An Introduction

  Hi everyone, welcome to my blog! As you probably know, social media has taken the world by storm, attracting many users across the world. 2.34 billion to…

Honest Instagram: the Truth Behind the Photos

In October 2015, teenager and model Essena O’Neill quit social media. Despite having over 500,000 followers, she shut down her Instagram account. She began the conversation on the fake-ness…

3 steps to a confident YOU

Lets feel more confident together! Confidence can be a huge bug bear for many of us! We all wish we had more confidence, whether it be in relation…

What Actually is Cyber Bullying… Do You Know?

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’ a popular saying which most, if not all have heard before. Yet the harsh reality…

Writing for the Web: 4 tips for Online Authors

Reading online is very different from reading a physical copy of something and if you want to keep your audience interested and engaged you need to know what…

Writing for the Web: 4 tips for online authors

Reading online is very different from reading a physical copy of something and if you want to keep your audience interested and engaged you need to know what…

Caitlyn Jenner: The controversial transgender reality star that broke the web.

When looking at gender identity, Caitlyn Jenner is one of the most famous and most controversial transgender people. Starring in the hit tv show “Keeping up with the…

How YouTube and “Vlogging” have effected perceptions of gender identity.

Over the past few years, YouTube has become a huge part of mainstream society, with users like Zoella (Zoe Sugg) having makeup lines and household items for sale…

Post #2: Photoshop flaws

Do you ever think about how much of what you see online has been photo-shopped? So if you’ve read the first post, you’re now sitting safely and flicking…

We’re all a bit overwhelmed…

Are we feeling overwhelmed and under pressure from our favourite beauty bloggers to keep up with the trends and tips they give us almost daily?

Is social media the cause of mental illness?

What Effects does Social Media Have on Teenagers? This week I made a short video hopefully providing a little insight into the effects of Social Media on teenagers…

Rebecca’s Story: Fighting the Bullies

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Why are we allowing social media to define us?

We all watch and are constantly being watched in media. We form our own identities, our own personas, having as a guiding principle the opinion, the values, the…

The Media: Mind Readers or Mind Feeders?

There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think,…

Social Media Election

   “Labour won the social media election” Living in this digital age, it would be almost impossible for digital technology not to have an impact and influence on…

Call Me Kylie

Celebrities are like marmite; you either love them or you hate them. Celebrity culture is more popular now than it has ever been before. Programmes such as I’m…

Kim Kardashian Robbery: The Reactions

On the 2nd of October 2016, Kim Kardashian was robbed at her Paris hotel room at gun-point. The robbers were reported to have escaped with a box containing…

Am I Really Myself Online?

In the modern age of internet and technology, there is an ever increasing list of ways for users to put themselves on display to the world. The rise of…

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The Gays.

Reading is Fundamental: I was perusing social media a few weeks when I came across a post made by a drag queen. The post was asking fans to…

New blog sets internet into frenzy

First of all welcome, the inaugural post for a revolutionary new blog (we hope). Clickbait is nothing new, it’s basically that kid that tries to be heard by shouting…

Were Labour really the losers?

Clearly, Labour did not win the general election. But neither did the Conservatives. To say the least, the result was truly unprecedented and begs so many questions, but…

Is politics just a marketing competition?

When Theresa May announced the sudden general election, it left the major UK political parties a short amount of time in order to prepare and apply their campaign…

How technology affects policymaking – Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur M. Schlesinger, historian

Welcome to The Fine Line

What has brought you here? You are mostly likely here because you have experienced unwanted physical contact or some form of sexual harassment. You could have been simply…

The beginning …

I never thought I would be able to … Sit here today and write about what I have been through and what I have experienced to shape me…

The Walk of No Shame

How many of us have been called a slut? Pretty much every girl I know, myself included, has been called that at least once. Even for reasons that…

The Sun vs Feminism

Emma Watson. Most of you will know her as Hermione Granger from Harry Potter, but she has been really busy since those films, and not just in the…

Wasting money on food… is #foodporn to blame??

It doesn’t even bear thinking about… the amount of money we spend on food is Ridiculous!!!  We never stop and think about how social media clogging our feeds…

About

Hey Guys! Thanks for visiting my blog 🙂 I’m Livvy, a 19 year old Media and Communications student at Bournemouth University. This blog tracks the massive phenomenon that…

Meet Ana & Mia

Ana and Mia might sound like nice girls, but they are an eating disorders worst enemy. Both names are short for Pro Anorexia and Pro Bulimia. You can…

A short history on long distance relationships.

Welcome to my blog. I’m an awkward person in real life so this introduction is probably going to be as awkward written down as it would be if…

Hotel or Airbnb?

The world is booming with hotels, and I admit that I have stayed in the best and the worst of them. Let’s rewind back to 2008 when Airbnb…