With hit songs such as ‘Up on Melancholy Hill‘, ‘‘Feel Good Inc.’, and ‘‘Clint Eastwood’, this British band has topped the charts of the alternative rock...
Continue reading...September 2018
Casper – your friendly ‘ghost’ tracker
Skyward. I was looking for a way into my next blog theme. I’m interested in the natural world and how the digital world impinges on that....
Continue reading...Oppan Gangnam Style
It’s the summer of 2012. While all the other teens are outside playing at the pool I’m scrolling through the latest news, but not just any...
Continue reading...Digital Media – Boon or Bane?
Digital media has been lauded as a stepping stone in human interaction, connectivity, knowledge, and research. Since the advent of the Internet, it has brought about...
Continue reading...Moon, Rose, Fish
As a linguist, I am fascinated by language. Communicating by combining separate sounds into larger parts and hereby creating something meaningful, with nothing but your voice,...
Continue reading...The future of the historian
May 2 1968 riots broke out in France. Demonstrations started at Paris University and soon spread all over the country, drawing in more students, factory workers,...
Continue reading...Lost in digital connections
Into the digital era The digital media have changed our rhythms and styles of lives and today digital electronic devices play a crucial role in our...
Continue reading...Internet and the Vulnerability of Personal Information
A few months earlier, I read numerous news articles regarding the Facebook personal data scandal. This scandal deals with a case where Cambridge Analytica, a UK...
Continue reading...Dealing with bears on the (internet) road
Returning to my first blog, and Canada, ironically digital media helps me stay in touch with wilderness. YouTube films, for example, are reminders of a geography,...
Continue reading...A Job Well Done
In the blog I wrote last week I talked about the fact that the field of studying old cultures is a somewhat old-fashioned one. And while...
Continue reading...The Science Behind Music Recognition
It’s not a secret anymore, now we’ve opened up the door!
Continue reading...Mind = Blown
The internet is a great place. Never in history has information been more accessible to so many people around the globe. Everything you want to know...
Continue reading...What is the message?
We as people love looking for meaning. I personally delight in finding for patterns and links. Though liking something does not mean we are any good...
Continue reading...The Curse Called ‘Social Media’
“Dear Grandma, I made my own e-mail account together with mom!” That’s the first line of the first e-mail I sent from the first e-mail address...
Continue reading...Clay Shirky revisited
Ten years ago Clay Shirky publiced his bestselling Here comes everybody. The power of organizing without organizations. I read the book a couple of years later...
Continue reading...“Don’t talk to strangers online.”
Despite growing up with computers (or perhaps because I grew up with computers) I do not remember my first encounter with the internet. I had my...
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