Muggle Magic: What the Mirror of Erised and the Two-Way Mirror Teach Us about Social Media (Part Two)
Examining Sirius’s Two-Way Mirror and how social media shapes our orientation to new information through how we connect to others on the internet.
Examining Sirius’s Two-Way Mirror and how social media shapes our orientation to new information through how we connect to others on the internet.
How the physical and social orientations of these mirrors reflect social media and what that reveals about our tendency toward echo chambers and homophilic communities.
by Rachael Dechert, Richa Venkatraman · Published July 22, 2018 · Last modified December 31, 2022
In the new “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” trailer, we saw a very curious moment. Why would Albus Dumbledore see Gellert Grindelwald in the Mirror of Erised? Is Grindelwald really Dumbledore’s greatest desire?
“The happiest man on Earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is…” – Albus Dumbledore. Share with us what you see in the Mirror of Erised using #MNBHP.
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