Notes App Apology

Is it alright to comment on celebrities' bodies? Do flesh images turn us into hateful EDTWT users? How does Megan Trainor feel about teachers? Floz and Mia flesh out these bodies of thought and more in this weeks episode.. References (to be finalised)Samantha Pinto, Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women's Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights (2020)Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, ‘Travel Style and Participatory Culture on Pinterest: Celebrity Bodies as sites of labour and inspiration’ (2019) Ju Oak Kim, ‘The Locality of Plastic Bodies: Korean Reality TV, Celebrity, and Bimaxillary Surgery’ (2020)  Anja Hirdman, ‘Flesh-Images, body shame and affective ambiguities in celebrity gossip magazines’ (2017) Chelsea Phillips, Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 (2022) Michelle H. S. Ho, ‘A Different Kind of Transgender Celebrity: From Entertainment Narrative to the “Wrong Body” Discourse in Japanese Media Culture (2022)

Is Therapy Speak ruining our relationships? Are boundaries the new exemption pass for treating people badly? Are Floz and Mia individualistic ghouls in their therapy journeys? The important thing is that we chat soooo much shit about Ariana Grande's newest TikTok, you won't remember even if we did get to the bottom of it.https://www.bustle.com/wellness/is-therapy-speak-making-us-selfish

Floz and Mia are back after an unplanned hiatus. Taylor Swift and Joe have broken up, our bodies are failing us, and the Dalai Lama has been noncing all around the towns. When the world needed us most, we reappeared.

This week hosts Floz and Mia dive into the lore behind everybody's favourite Tumblr blog, YourFaveIsProblematic. Digressions include theories on how every Brit lost their virginity, hyperfixations of the week, and why David Foster Wallace deserved to make an appearance on this archived slice of internet history. Citations Liat Kaplan (2021) My Year of Grief and Cancellation, The New York Times. Matt Bucher & Grace Chipperfield (2021) How to be a Fan in the Age of Problematic Faves, Life Writing, 18:1, 67-78.

Floz and Mia are spilling less milk in 2023. Discussions include: why capitalism is destroying our new year's spirit, why Mia will defend Stacey Dooley to the end, and why Floz needs to make amends to a sweet shop worker from 2011.

The second instalment of the Notes App Apology Christmas Special (yes, it's January now.) Join moots for life Floz, Mia, and Grace, as they unwrap why we love to lie on the internet, expose some of their own lies, and question whether or not Ronald Reagan is an aceggot. 

In the first episode of their Christmas special, Floz and Mia get a bit Foucauldian as they discuss the surveillance tactics of Elf on the Shelf, the correct way to pronounce croissant in a British pret, and Mia has huge news about the state of Matty Healy's hair... References: - Lynn. J. McNair (2022) ‘The Relationship Between Young Children’s transitions and power: ‘Why are all the doors locked? I don’t feel free… I am not in charge of me anymore’ Children’s Geographies, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp.661-673- Donell Holloway (2017) The panopticon kitchen: The materiality of parental surveillance in the family home- Laura Elizabeth Pinto and Selena Nemorin (2015) Normalizing Panoptic Surveillance Among Children: ‘The Elf on the Shelf’ - Sandra Trappen (2016) The “Santopticon” - Michel Foucault, literally anything he's ever written about powerSFX from Zapsplat 

Floz and Mia are making up for last week's absence with an extended episode on Queerbaiting.... Queerbaiting. What is it? Who does it? Is it bad? Lets explore the Holy Trinity of Queerbaiters (Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, and Billie Eilish) and figure it out together <3 Brennan, J. (2019) Queerbaiting and fandom: Teasing fans through homoerotic possibilities. (University of Iowa Press)Fathallah, J. (2021) Is stage-gay queerbaiting? The politics of performative homoeroticism in emo bands. Journal of Popular Music Studies Vol. 33, No. 1, pp.121–136.Houston, A . (2020) Views and Reviews: Celebrity as Fantasy Screen, Canadian Theatre Review, No. 141 pp.94-96 Smialek, E. (2021) Who Needs to Calm Down? Taylor Swift and Rainbow Capitalism, Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 40, No.1, pp.99-119Zhao, J. (2021) Blackpink queers your area: the global queerbaiting and queer fandom of K-pop female idols, Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp.1033-1038

What is a digital archive? Has Elon Musk destroyed it? This week Floz and Mia discuss what would happen in the event of Twitter's death, and wonder if Mia will be able to finish her PhD before he gets his hands on Instagram...[References to be finalised]

Join Floz and Mia this week as they take on new heights of procrastination and discuss Molly Mae's thrilling new memoir through a critical marxist-feminist lens... [Citations to be updated] 

Join Floz and Mia this week as we figure out what self quantification actually is, if Floz should join BeReal, and whether Mia's sincere investment in the Taylor Swift cinematic universe is cause for concern...References [to be finalised] Kateryna Maltseva and Christoph Lutz, A Quantum of Self: A Study of Self-Quantification and Self-Disclosure, Computers in Human Behaviour, No. 81 (2018) pp.102-114Farzana Dudhwala, Doing the self: an ethnographic analysis of the quantified self [PhD thesis] University of Oxford (2017) D.A Baker, Four Ironies of Self-quantification: Wearable Technologies and the Quantified Self. Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 26 (2020) p.1477-1498 Natasha Schüll, "The Data-Based Self: Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" Social ResearchVol. 86, No. 4 (2019) pp.909-930Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman and Patrick H. Hutton (eds) Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault(London: Tavistock Publications, 1988)Btihaj Ajana,Digital health and the biopolitics of the Quantified Self, Digital Health, Vol.3 (2017)

Join us this Halloween with our first ever episode to get paranormal, paradoxical and maybe even a bit parasocial...