It’s that time of the year again. December 1st. You open Instagram, as you probably do every morning, just to browse around. See what your friends...
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The Lazy Protest
What really is the meaning behind posting something solely for ‘bringing more awareness’? What is the true benefit of these posts and what about these posts...
Continue reading...Update on online Charity
In my opinion there are currently two big Charities going strong on YouTube the first one is #TeamSeas and the $1.000.000 stream for St. Jude. Lets...
Continue reading...Draw My Life: Digital Media Edition!
For my last content piece, I thought I’d talk about my own experiences growing up with the digital world. Hope you all enjoy! 🙂 Ps: I...
Continue reading...Subreddits
When I was having an early Christmas dinner with some friends, we started talking about subreddits. I had never heard of a subreddit: “What does that...
Continue reading...#DepressionVersusSocialMedia
The twenty-first century is the century of technology; social media is prevailing in every aspect of our lives and can be quite convenient in many cases...
Continue reading...How watching my brother play video games made me into an avid media consumer
How productivity apps make you less productive
Have you ever been laying in bed or chilling on the couch in the evening when suddenly a strike of inspiration and motivation strikes and you...
Continue reading...Digital Detoxes, Screentime, and Living 10 Years in the Past
In this video, I chat about how the differences in my enivornment have affected my screentime, particularly between my family home in Latvia and my life...
Continue reading...Instagram ads gone too far (video)
I’ve made a short videos about the problems of instagram advertisements and paid sponsorship of cosmetic procedures and plastic surgeries. Enjoy! Sources https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-59406842 https://brogan.com/blog/cosmetic-surgery-advertising-changing-face-medical-marketing/ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/instagram-being-flooded-by-fake-cosmetic-surgery-posts-that-can-be-deadly-3990893.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-instagram-plastic-surgery-study-0830-biz-20170829-story.html...
Continue reading...My Most Recent Experiences with The Digital
Having started my blogs with my first ever encounter of a digital community, I figured that it would be nice to end with my most recent...
Continue reading...Surveillance in Education: Why Privacy is Necessary For Intellectual Freedom
The use of surveillance technologies in educational institutions has long been a topic of interest for me. Motivated by the intention to further unpack some key...
Continue reading...Echo-chambers and Technological Group Think: The Case For Platform Socialism
Having previously considered social media marketing as a potential career path for myself, I had once sworn myself to the world of marketing analytics until I...
Continue reading...The fun but problematic Everskies
For my last post, I want to show you a website that has been one of my recent obsessions: Everskies. This website is a combination of...
Continue reading...Digital Media through Generations Part 2/2
In this second part of the podcast, I will be interviewing my parents on their digital media consumption in order to establish whether there is a...
Continue reading...Jan x (Jesus vs digital) = this video
How tall was actually Jesus Christ? Am I taller than him? Can you pet a virtual lion? I try to answer all those questions in the...
Continue reading...Help! Why do I keep playing??
For week 6’s lecture on ‘Amazing Economies,’ we had to play this game named AdVenture Capitalist in advance. I was curious to see what kind of...
Continue reading...Paradise Hills
Paradise Hills is a film by director Alice Waddington and premiered 26 January 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival. When I watched this film back in...
Continue reading...The reason why my attention span became shorter than a duck
Over the recent years, I’ve noticed that I’m having more and more trouble focusing on any task for more than five minutes. Even while writing this...
Continue reading...One touch on the screen and you can get anything you want!
During my recent conversation with my friends the topic of touch screen kiosks came up. I asked them whether they preferred ordering food in person or...
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