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Op-Ed | Why I Unfollowed Miroslava Duma

The Duma-Sergeenko affair is testimony to the high level of ignorance that still prevails in the fashion industry, but the social media influencers do not represent all of us, argues Joelle Firzli.
Miroslava Duma | Source: Shutterstock
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  • Joelle Firzli

This past week, I felt like I was trapped between a bad episode of Black Mirror and the pages of Guy Debord’s “Society of Spectacle.” There is a similarity between the dark British anthology series, which explores society and the effects of modern technology on it, and the French book, published in 1967, which depicts a human society that is heavily influenced by, and dependent, on mass media.

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