A year ago I had a discussion with a friend about ASMR. We had very different opinions: she is a fan, she listens to sleep ASMR...
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Badoo, Tinder, Bumble and so much more
I think a lot of people (specifically millennials and the following generations) have once in their life downloaded a dating app, even if it was out...
Continue reading...Video essay about brand humanization
Sources: Allebach, N. (2021, 8 december). A Critical Breakdown of Brand Humanization on Social Media. Nathan Allebach. Geraadpleegd op 20 december 2021, van https://nathanallebach.medium.com/good-and-bad-ways-to-criticize-brands-being-human-on-social-media-cf61665fe7ca Baskin-Robbins [@BaskinRobbins]....
Continue reading...Homo plasticus
A topian tale It is the year 2072 and AI has failed mankind. The machines modeled after Isaac Asimov’s three laws did not allow them however...
Continue reading...Embrace your multitude
It is late November in 2021 when a group of students led by their archaeologist professor discuss what a cyborg is. In an attempt to sense...
Continue reading...How YouTube has helped me learn
I love learning new things, but especially since starting university and having to read over 200 pages weekly, I do not find much time for any...
Continue reading...Are computers smart having fun?
Notice how there are a few things at play here that might influence our judgement.Though a simple yes/no question, we are dealing with a visible edit...
Continue reading...Christmas Craziness!
It’s that time of the year again… Christmas is coming!! All I Want for Christmas Is You, Last Christmas, and Do They Know It’s Christmas? are...
Continue reading...Do not engage. Rest!
‘Fun: Spend a day offline’ was a suggestion from a few weeks back. Spending a day offline can indeed be considered fun, but fun can be...
Continue reading...Casting knowledge
Apart from the knowledge clips by Angus on podcasts, the one I had to record on ethics in studies, and the one I have been sent...
Continue reading...Why you should start watching video essays – a tiktok
Okay so don’t judge me too harshly, this was like my first tiktok ever but this tiktok is about video essays and why you should watch/create...
Continue reading...“What you should know about X event”… To Share or Not to Share?
A continuation of my BlackOutTuesday Blogpost. Because there is so much more to be said… There is so much going on in the world. From the...
Continue reading...The Omegaverse: Claiming A Trope (Pt. 3)
In the third part of this three-part podcast Andrea Blätler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss the ethics of fanfiction, consent and non-consent in media, and...
Continue reading...Pffff… Too much to share…
Yesterday I got frustrated with myself. I looked through my private Snapchat story memories. I saw all these videos and photos I had made and shared...
Continue reading...Connecting Globally – The Duolingo Language App
Duolingo , or “The world’s best way to learn a language” according to the application itself, was launched to the public in 2012, and according to...
Continue reading...How to deal with social media overwhelm
In this video I will be talking about social media overwhelm. I will define the term sensory overload and relate to Goffman’s theory on theatrical performativity...
Continue reading...Self-driving car morality test
In this video, part 1.5 of our podcast, Andrea Blätler, James Bentham and I do the self-driving car morality test! do it yourself here: https://www.moralmachine.net/
Continue reading...The Omegaverse: claiming a trope (pt 2)
In the second part of this three-part podcast James Bentham, Andrea Blätler, and I discuss a copyright lawsuit about books in the Omegaverse. We discuss copyright...
Continue reading...What are you talking about?! Miscommunication in the Digital
Hello everyone, Laura Akerboom and I (Ruth van der Weijden) made a podcast together about communication and therefore also miscommunication in the Digital. We came to...
Continue reading...Lockdown and Christmas: How I Combat the Loneliness
It’s December, Sinterklaas has long since arrived back in Spain, the temperatures outside are dipping into the negatives, and everywhere you look you see fairy lights...
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