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Like so many people in the world right now, students at Aarhus University's Mundus Journalism program are social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic. We're into a second week, and we're getting used to this uneasy new reality, but not without a lot of existential angst, confusion, tears, loneliness and...TikTok videos! Yes,  just like how our parents discovered Facebook (a platform initially built for college students), we 20-somethings are crowding out the Teens on TikTok. 

In this episode, we discuss how a daily TikTok challenge helped us feel less lonely. How social media can still be extremely overwhelming, and how it carries with it all of the contradictions of our times. 

Featuring Sindhuri Nandhakumar, Pauline Bakker and Susanna Carta.

Music and Audio Credits:

'These City Streets' by BigAlBeatz licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

“Victory” sound effect from https://freesound.org/s/470083/ (Creative Commons)

Loops from https://www.looperman.com (Creative Commons)

At a time when social media seems to be evolving at an unfathomable pace, we can only try to get a grasp of its implications on a broader scale. In this episode, Pauline, Giovana and Susanna explore how TikTok works, how journalists and brands are starting to approach it, and how it’s the first platform that makes millennials feel old, looking at videos ranging from dancing ferrets to political activism. We discuss the dangers of letting tech companies have full decisional power on content moderation and data collection, and we look at social media use in Russia and China to see how the landscape varies across regions of the world.



Music and Audio Credits:

'These City Streets' by BigAlBeatz licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Inspiring Beat by Alex Menco | https://alexmenco.net Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

TikTok make-up video Uyghurs:
By Hong Kong Free Press. Date: 26 November 2019. Topic: Teen embeds message about Xinjiang Uyghurs in TikTok make-up video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5nLp9_LKs

Dutch news:
By NOS Jeugdjournaal. Topic: evening broadcast zondag February 23, 2020. https://jeugdjournaal.nl/uitzending/48037-avondjournaal.html

What can we possibly say about marriage that hasn't already been said? Hate it or love it, you've got to admit that the institution has a very large influence on our lives. Even if we choose not to get married, a good many days in our lives are sacrificed to attending other people's weddings.

In this episode, Marta, Pauline and Sindhuri talk about how their views and perceptions of marriage are influenced by their cultures. Sindhu's Sri Lankan/Indian, arranged-marriage-favouring family would like for her to marry a boy from "within the community" (that's a euphemism for caste). Pauline can't envision her Dutch family telling her whom to marry, and Marta believes Italian views towards marriage are diverse and regionally-specific.

We discuss the ideas of Esther Perel, this relatively new trend called 'sologamy' (marrying yourself) and more!

Brought to you by the Erasmus Mundus journalism students at Aarhus University, Denmark

Music and Audio Credits:

‘Embracing Sologamy: Meet The Woman Who Married Herself’ - Vice - YouTube
The Ghost in Your Piano - Climb

Victor Herbert Orchestra 1910 - Old DutchEdison Cylinders

Romance Keys by Click Click Click

Esther Perel's TED Talk

Run The Tape by Asthmatic Astronaut

Strina Calabrese by Italian Village Music and Dance

'These City Streets' by BigAlBeatz licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Who are we? What is a millennial? But most importantly, why in the world are we filling sausages? In this preview, we want to clear it all up and give you a sense of what's to come. 

Subscribe and come back on December 18th for our first sizzling treat, delivered to you from the Mundus Journalism students at Aarhus University. 

Email us at: fillingthesausage@gmail.com



Music credits:

'These City Streets' by BigAlBeatz licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 

‘Só Pra Ver Sambar’ by Diogo Cadaval licenced under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 

‘Kill the Boss’ by The Passion HiFi licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 

Snippets/Audio Extracts under Fair Use:

‘Baby Boomers vs. Millennials’ from TheEllenShow channel on YouTube