Number of Posts: 7
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No More Filters: Instagram Stars Are Roaring on the Runway
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 22.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media
Summary | The Men's Fashion Week (dominated by Millennial male models) just ended in Milan. Designers have also been leaning on famous people on social networks in order to spice up their show. For instance, Shawn Mendes has 18, 22.7 million Instagram followers; he was at Emporio Armani on Saturday.
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Katie Lee on Culture and Cuisine at the Beach
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 3.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media
Summary | A food journalist describes how she finds the best spots to blog about. She goes to Instagram and checks out the restaurants beforehand. The pictures of the food also give her a feel for what might be the best dish at a restaurant. It is always also important to ask locals, for instance taxi drivers.
Image Description | Photograph of the interviewee at the beach.
Image Tags | female(s)
Time to Put on Your Big-Boy Pants
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 19.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | hashtags, Instagram, social media, threat
Summary | The skinny jeans trend is fading and the new trend are low-waisted loose-fitting curduroy pants with a drop-crotch. Social media influencers comment that Instagram is changing the game when it comes to promoting trends. Users can access an endless stream of visual material by just searching for a hashtag of a new trend. This has some downsides to it since it accelerates the changing of trends and pressures people to renew their wardrobe each season.
Image Description | Getty image of models wearing the new trouser trend.
Image Tags | male(s)
Eager crowds are flattening Southern California's vibrant 'super bloom'
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 6.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media, threat, Twitter
Summary | Rare rainfalls in California have cause the 'super-bloom' in the deserts, drawing thousands of visitors to the national parks. This is the first time social media has had such a huge impact on visitor numbers: people are eagerly Instagramming the admittedly photogenic natural phenomenon. The only problem is that people are breaking park rules in order to get a good picture: many are straying off the tracks, trampling the delicate flowers. People have posted pictures of themseves with wildflower bouquet and lying or sitting on top of the flowers. Not all parks have this problem, but some people are destroying the flora just to get a good Instagram post.
Image Description | Photographs of the superbloom off of Twitter.
Image Tags | Twitter
‘Unicorn Food’ Is Colorful, Sparkly and Everywhere
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, hashtags, Instagram, marketing, politeness, social media
Summary | Starbucks is cashing in on the 'unicorn food' trend - a trend to make all food colorful. The trend was likely sparked from a Florida-based Instagrammer who has now acquired a huge following. She noticed that her hobby had become a trend when people would copy her creations and Instagram them with the fitting hashtag. Now Starbucks has caught on the trend and they are offering a unicorm frappucino for five days only.
Image Description | Unicorn/rainbow foods and the Starbucks Unicorn Frappucino.
13 Super-Modern Signs Your Relationship Is Getting Serious
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 30.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, sexting, social media
Summary | The digital age has brought forth new little milestones for relationships: what used to be putting your girlfriend on speed dial may now be waiting for them to watch a new episode of your favorite TV show together. Other signs that your relationship is increasingly serious are when you text each other during day time not to make plans but to check in or share something, when your significant other's family want to befriend you on social media, when you appear in each other's Instagrams, when you make your relationship official on Facebook, or when you send each other nude selfies.
Image Description | A CNP Montrose image of intricately manicured hands using a Blackberry.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone, text
Letter of Recommendation: Instagram Explore
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media
Summary | As consumers of the internet, we are used to being subjected to algorithms calculating what we might be interested in and feeding it back to us. The algorithm on the Instagram Explore page is however is very difficult to decipher because it suggests things that seem unlikely but somehow it still works: users are often surprised by how they like something that they never would have expected. The Instagram world nurtures a society of narcissists and excentrics who are apt at expressing themselves. For the first time, one persons guilty pleasure or secret hobby can be put online and receive a global applause in form of emojis and messages in various languages.
Image Description | Collage of artsy trompe l'oeil eye makeup by Instagrammer Gulianna Maria Bosco.
Image Tags | female(s)
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