Google never forgets, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and the list goes on. All your personal Data is saved; photos that you once downloaded; personal information that...
Continue reading...October 2019
Hackers without borders
Social media blunders
Nowadays, people know the ins and outs of social media. Especially children that grew up with iPads, tablets and smartphones have built up some sort of...
Continue reading...Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
reCAPTCHA: Google’s spy
Facial Weaponization Suite
Today, I am going to introduce to you one art project that I think pretty impressive. As you can see the title, the name of the...
Continue reading...Ancestors on trial: historical court records online
Did you ever wonder if one of your ancestors has been to court, or maybe even served time in prison? With the help of online databases,...
Continue reading...Winning friends and influencing people
When last week we were talking about ‘The Self Online’ I started thinking about how we, as humans, are taught how to present ourselves and how...
Continue reading...Has music become too easily accessible?
Let me start this off by saying that I am not trying to be classist or snobbish with this blog post; I believe music is for...
Continue reading...The environmental cost of the internet
Past weekend I had a discussion with my father about the climate march of the preceding Friday, I was talking about how the size of the...
Continue reading...The Blurred Lines Between Anonymity and Role-Playing
I want to analyze the role of anonymity in one’s humanity. The digital world has made it extremely easy to go undercover, to a certain extent....
Continue reading...I have traveled the world
Social Media and High (?) Fashion
It is needless to list the perks of digital media. We are living in a day and age where we have fast access to information, gadgets...
Continue reading...Online personality cults
Personal Mobile Coach
Automation and the FUTUUUUUURE
Rather than structure my blog entry as a fun yet academic article, I want to make this entry more of a story meets an infinite amount...
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With this sudden appearance of cold and wet autumn weather, a natural occurrence comes back into our lives. I call this the ‘I’d-really-rather-not-go-outside-into-the-cold-and-the-rain’ phenomenon. A perfectly...
Continue reading...Research Booster
In the last weeks, I tried to give you some insides in how the digital applies to linguistics in daily life and how all of us...
Continue reading...Do we make social media, or does it make us?
“According to this {the structuralist} perspective, people don’t ‘think or speak ideas’ or make meanings. In fact, the very idea of a ‘free subject’ is, ironically,...
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