Last night, I bumped into an article on VICE. Which talked about different people who posted images on Instagram, which afterwards got deleted because of community...
Continue reading...September 2019
Mission Impossible and The Death of Moments
I got a notification on my phone. Some data needed to be deleted or my phone couldn’t function properly anymore, or something like that. We’ve all...
Continue reading...The Internet, Foucault’s Panopticon and You: A Digitized Disciplinary Society
Have you ever wondered what internet ‘cookies’ are? Or how secure your information is online? Since the digital revolution and the advent of the internet, data,...
Continue reading...Modern Art Thieves: Literally and Figuratively Children
If someone comes up to you and asks you to picture an art thief in your mind, your first reaction is probably something along the lines...
Continue reading...Weekend: wine, friends and our iPhones
Explaining YouTuber earnings to my mum
The question of if online creators should get paid for what they do is a controversial one, but one thing is certain: there is an enormous...
Continue reading...Opinion: Something Old, Something New
Life in 2019 is living in the digital age. We have never been as technologically advanced as in this very moment and most of us interact...
Continue reading...Who’s the master?
Before we start discussion, I want to be clear about the definition of ‘Media.’ Media is a mechanism that transmits an action from one side to...
Continue reading...Forgetting how to walk
Despite what my grandmother insists on telling strangers, she has recently turned 85 but most importantly she has an impressive memory. She doesn’t just remember facts,...
Continue reading...The Scale of the Greta-Effect
Today, on September 23rd, the United Nations Climate Action Summit is currently taking place in New York City following a weekend of global protests like never...
Continue reading...The real-life Tony Stark
Who would that be? I am talking about Elon Musk. Elon Musk can be seen as one of the most influential persons of the 21st century...
Continue reading...Modern mythology
Nowadays there aren’t as many battles and raids as in the age of the Vikings, so naturally the way in which the norse Gods are portrayed...
Continue reading...Building a simple game in Python
The Rise of Crowdsourcing
Ice Cream Cone Reality
I understood that there are bigger realities than others while I was shamelessly eating a second ice cream cone in the train station last night. It...
Continue reading...The post-modern Swiss army knife
Dystopian future? China’s social credit system and the surveillance state
Since the People’s Republic of China announced in 2014 that they will launch a new system that is supposed to make sure it’s citizens and corporations...
Continue reading...Online and offline life: the duality of nowadays reality
Music: The Good, the Bad or the Same?
Music is and always has been a near-constant in my life. Back in the olden days of cassettes I had a lot of fun playing with...
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