It’s a funny phenomenon that you see more and more often. Human beings that have been alive for only 2 months that aren’t even able to...
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Instagram vs. reality
A few weeks ago, I was at a party. I sat at a table with a group of women in their fifties, as they opened up...
Continue reading...Echo- The Filter Bubble
The term is coined by Eli Pariser, who explains what it is in-depth in his TED Talk. The phenomenon was discussed in a previous DMSC class,...
Continue reading...The unequal distribution of a wealth of digital media
Just me, my data and I
The beauty of Instagram
We open it and the sparkle reflects in our eyes. The life seems perfect. We want to absorb the beauty, the endless beauty. We scroll down...
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You might enjoy video games, but did you know you can make a living out of playing them? This got me thinking, so I started investigating...
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I remembered 2 years ago I took my TOFLE ibt test. And before I signed up for the test, as I scrolled down the page of...
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Biometric Authentication
Language 2go
When I first approached this blogpost, I had a plan in mind, to illustrate the negative aspects technology brings to language learning and communication between cultures....
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Humans Are Social Animals “We, as humans, are social animals.” This is a phrase that I have been hearing since middle school. I have learned that...
Continue reading...Historians and GIS
In the field of history, GIS (Geographic Information System) is a well-known type of software. Already the term HGIS (the extra H stands for historical) is...
Continue reading...The Tries That Bind
‘Tis the season to be jolly get into heated debates over questionable refereeing decisions and scrutinise every playmaking move – butI’m not talking about your typical Super...
Continue reading...Social Media: Community Guidelines
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...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...
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