steeped by samia no.41 // contented vol.1 | 07.25.25 “F*ck the algorithm” —RM in All Day (with Tablo), Indigo (2022) Growing up, summers were for the library, sprawled in the children’s section, starting one book right after the next. My siblings and I would get a stack of I Spy books and stare at themContinue reading “What is going on with ‘content’ lately?”
Category Archives: Digital Culture
Logged on far too long: You’ve really changed, haven’t you?
STEEPED BY SAMIA #34 | 09.22.24 On Facebook Memories and being a teen on social media in the 2010s. I love back to school season. Not as a student or as someone who works in schools, but as someone who enjoyed going to school and often gets asked, “Didn’t you want to be a teacher?!”Continue reading “Logged on far too long: You’ve really changed, haven’t you?”
Can we extract ourselves from the digital world?
STEEPED BY SAMIA #23 | 07.16.23 Doom-scrolling, the ‘like’ button, and me promising to write more about digital culture things. When Sufyan and I are in the car, I inevitably turn to him and say, “Did you hear about XYZ??” And Sufyan will reply with something like, “Whaaat?! No, I haven’t,” and I launch intoContinue reading “Can we extract ourselves from the digital world?”
In defense of quiet, meandering books & TV shows
STEEPED BY SAMIA #9 | 11.05.22 Finding joy in slower media & wondering what it means when something is “worthy of attention.” The first days of November have ushered in cold weather in the South Bay with much-welcomed rain. As I write this, I’m sipping some lavender tea with oat milk and honey and listeningContinue reading “In defense of quiet, meandering books & TV shows”
Chocolate Island: The adventure of searching for a childhood book
STEEPED BY SAMIA #7 | 10.23.22 On nostalgia & things from your childhood that you can’t remember clearly, that feel like an itch you can’t scratch. My elementary school memories are filled with warmth and wonder. Making stone soup and having an autumnal feast with my class in fourth grade. The school library transforming intoContinue reading “Chocolate Island: The adventure of searching for a childhood book”
An ode to Shelfari & other virtual spaces that don’t exist anymore
STEEPED BY SAMIA #2 | 06.22.22 A middle schooler, a book-ish teen community, and a now defunct website. In my tween years, I used Shelfari to keep track of the books I was reading. It was a site that allowed users to browse, categorize, and review books. There was also a social / community aspect,Continue reading “An ode to Shelfari & other virtual spaces that don’t exist anymore”
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