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Urban Echoes: Graffiti Culture of Athens

July 30th, 2025 · No Comments

“Caught up in the dynamics of the contemporary city, graffiti and street art unfold as a series of dialectical tensions, crisscrossing between legality and illegality, visibility and invisibility, art and action,* ephemerality and elongation.” (Avramidis & Tsilimpounidi, 2016). * ephemerality: the quality of being short-lived or temporary. The first thing I noticed when visiting Athens […]

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Tags: History & World Cultures · Psychology · Tourism · Travel

Are Social Media’s Algorithms Manipulated to Amplify Controversy?

July 13th, 2025 · No Comments

The time I spend on social media has been steadily declining. It’s hard to ignore the growing awareness that these platforms are allegedly engineered to amplify controversy and boost engagement, often by exposing people to opposing views in ways that provoke emotional reactions. This kind of engagement translates directly into profit, simply by keeping users […]

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Tags: Internet · Psychology · Social Media

Why Are We Writing Blogs?

June 27th, 2025 · No Comments

I did not write in this blog for quite a while, but when I did feel the urge to write, I was wondering what’s my motivation? a way to express myself? trying to connect with the outside world? How is it that I’m hardly writing on Facebook, but yet I write posts about pepper sauce, […]

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Tags: Internet · Psychology · Social Media