Computers can do anything or almost anything. They can even read books with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Images from printed pages are converted...
Continue reading...October 2018
Hatsune Miku vs Human Voice
In my last two posts, I talked about Hatsune Miku, Vocaloid and utaite (see “Hatsune Miku, the idol who doesn’t exist” and “Mere cover artists performing...
Continue reading...Digital Hate Culture
As I’m sure we all know, digital media has led to a rise in hate culture that has been on all sorts of digital platforms, be...
Continue reading...Doomed to fail?
This week I am going to predict something. When I wrote about Tamagotchis a few weeks back I talked about how companies utilize people’s feelings of...
Continue reading...Power of Visual Metaphor
I have prepared two claims. First regarding gender roles: gender should not choose roles, and second regarding working conditions: women must work hard to reach equality...
Continue reading...A sense of community in the jungle
“While a mosaic respects the diversity of the elements of which it is made up, it brings them together in an organic unity greater than the sum of its parts.”...
Continue reading...YouTube; A Career Platform?
During the process of writing blogs I realized that there is so much that we take for granted nowadays. Several pieces of digital structure have been...
Continue reading...Fragments
Fragmentation and risk taking Maffessoli observes that the idea of the ‘individual’ is in retreat and is suffering fragmentation; and that the individual Self seeks a...
Continue reading...Digital Media, A Connection or Separation?
A few days before, I was reading a ‘Webtoon’ (online cartoon) called Collage Journal (대학일기). This particular episode depicted people playing Pokémon Go, which is a...
Continue reading...On Fake News
Fake news has been a great topic of interest in recent years – why though? According to research, fake news has been around ever since the...
Continue reading...When Life Gives You Limes…
Allow me to take you back to the year 2000. The internet was just breaching into popularity and I was 2 years old at that time....
Continue reading...Getting Fit with Pokémon Go
When it comes to video games there always seem to be these ideas and prejudices flying around that they make you lazy, aggressive, anti-social and more....
Continue reading...Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum is a text without meaning used by typesetters and desktop publishers to try a font or lay-out. It contains Latin looking words or parts...
Continue reading...Google Maps
Enter location. Enter destination. Start navigation. That is the power of Google Maps, and it has become part of my everyday life, especially as an exchange...
Continue reading...The Co-existence of Positive and Negative Aspects of Internet
I remember watching an animation film ‘Wall-E’ a few years ago. To be honest, I do not perfectly remember the full story. This one scene, however,...
Continue reading...Blackwashing/whitewashing
No, this title is not referring to your laundry. It does refer to when people for instance use a white person to represent a black person...
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