With more of day-to-day life taking place online, the sense we’re being watched is hard to ignore. But is there a way to hide our personal personas from professional prospects? Canvas8 spoke to Dr. Brooke Duffy about how students are altering their digital presence to resist employer surveillance.

Netflix’sThe Social Dilemmarepeats familiar critiques of Big Tech’s surveillance-fuelled, behaviour-shaping business model. But by bringing an elegant yet alarmist version of the story to its vast subscriber base, it's helping the surveillance conversation to break into mainstream consciousness.

Dispo, a photo-sharing app that mimics the experience of using a disposable camera, is taking off in the US. Its appeal is rooted in its nostalgic, lo-fi quality, coming at a time when people are seeking ways to express themselves beyond the highly-curated feeds of platforms such as Instagram.

Social media has the ability to send its users into a spiral of self-pity one day and transform their lives through the power of community the next. Canvas8 spoke to Sarah Raphael, co-author ofMixed Feelings, about our love-hate relationship with social media and what this means for brands.