November 2020
The idea of free speech
Being from the U.S. and as the ideals from my home country have spread across the world, one of the biggest ones is the First Amendment...
Continue reading...How the Dark Web is fueling a drug epidemic
Introduction Since the internet era began in the 1990s, we have used the web to do and explore so many things. Nowadays, we can inform ourselves...
Continue reading...Digital Tools in Fashion
It is pretty clear that the year 2020 was quite chaotic for many industries but for some of them, many doors are opened for experimentation, especially...
Continue reading...Realization of the World Brain: Is it Google?
Yeah why not? After all its a portal in to everything that humans have said, done or thought. But the World Brain that was envisioned by...
Continue reading...Is that Facebook event going to happen?
I first encountered a fake Facebook event about three years ago. It was named Naruto run in front of the Parliament building. A Naruto run is...
Continue reading...Travel Envy
Written by: Pieter de Jong We all watch YouTube video’s, don’t we? I do, that’s for sure. I love watching YouTube video’s and travel video’s by...
Continue reading...____ News Central: A Mini Prediction
As usual, I was scrolling through multiple RELIABLE news sources for inspiration for my blog posts, and I stumbled across this article by Business Insider. President...
Continue reading...Challenging Gallery Representation: How One Artist Uses Instagram as the Primary Platform for Selling her Works
Your favorite YouTuber and ISIS have more in common than you think [NOT CLICKBAIT] [MAYBE A LITTLE]
If you clicked on this post, I can only imagine you’re here to find out how someone like David Dobrik and prolific terrorist organization ISIS could...
Continue reading...The rise of the one-man development team
When thinking of indie games, some famous examples include Hello Game’s No Man’s Sky in it’s beautiful polygonal rendering, Toby Fox’s Undertale, made in 32-bit sprites,...
Continue reading...The Machine’s Gambit
Recently we have talked extensively about computer games and virtual worlds created by humans. However, I want to talk about a physical game that we brought...
Continue reading...Digital Archaeology (video)
Video Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RZVMlKHCa3_A-Y2uvjI7Ti4HxILt-Mlz/view?usp=sharing Sources and links: Websites & videos YaleCampus – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EVnOqvguQ&t=76s&ab_channel=YaleCampus Music by Chill by Sakura – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2tXC1pXNo&ab_channel=AudioLibrary%E2%80%94Musicforcontentcreators Ancientathens3d – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWPCZ1UjYmI&t=61s&ab_channel=AncientAthens3D JamestownRediscovery – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Of2cjj3nEw&t=9s&ab_channel=JamestownRediscovery Michigan...
Continue reading...Online Pedohunters: how to make the offline problem worse
It is all over the news: Pedohunters. Two weeks ago, a 73-years-old man from Arnhem, Holland, passed away as a result of his injuries after a...
Continue reading...toasty digital and why Kanye is the gift that keeps on giving.
The album. “It is the year 2049. Kanye West has been missing for nearly 30 years. Rising global temperatures threaten to end human civilisation as we...
Continue reading...The Bible’s abandoned “mines”
For Hacking the Humanities this year I would love to textmine a sacred text, looking for the uses of female pronouns. So, while doing research on...
Continue reading...How Political Fandom is Shaping the World
14 November 2020 Source: How Fan Culture is Swallowing Democracy. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/arts/how-fan-culture-is-swallowing-democracy.html
Continue reading...Poetry on your phone!
Game training: does it work?
Online Communities
Have you ever looked at a meme or post while scrolling on facebook or instagram or whatever it is that cool kids use these days and...
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