In a study conducted by Italian music data company Musixmatch, it was concluded that around 1 in 47 words in rap songs are of profane nature, adding up to an average of 10 curse words per song. The closest following genre by profanity was heavy metal with an average of 1 in 352 words, an immense difference. What is this marriage between rap and…
Episode 11: Christmas Special! This the eleventh episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, very overdue edition, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. As the host of this episode, Cosima starts us off with some interesting information on Saturnalia, the Ancient Roman version of Christmas. We continue with discussions on the Christmas Spirit, Christmas traditions, consumerist…
Episode 10: Creative Bondage in Digital Phenomena This the tenth episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. As the host of this episode, Emma introduces a discussion about differences between ‘classical’ and digital in art, artspaces, artistic approval and artistic standards. How does art and it’s creation develop in the…
A little self-exploration through Vlogging. We kinda do it a lot on social media, and I wanted to highlight the opportunity of self-exploration and conservation through the Digital.
For this blog post I will do two mini blogs posts. These topics were too short for a full post, so I will do both in one blog post. Antique VR The concept of VR seems to be something only achievable with current and future technology, however similar experiences already existed in the past. It isn’t as fancy as out VR headsets,…
Last time we saw some manga series, this time I will recommend some anime. There are classics like Ghost in the Shell, Gunnm and Akira, or the mainstream Psycho Pass. I’d like to give some attention to some lesser known anime, but they aren’t that niche since they are available on multiple streaming platforms. Shelter (I will start with one that got…
This title is a bit clickbaity, but it reflects the content of this blog post. It may be seem weird to write it like this but you will understand better this choice after you’ve skimmed through this following text: Firstly, that’s where I would add my own personal opinion that we have seen how many times that stuff has come from people…
My fellow classmates made some articles about V-tubers, these digital figures often take inspiration from otaku culture, which is to be put simply the Japanese gaming, anime and manga spheres (though the definition can be a bit more complex). Being somewhat familiar with the later two, I will make some recommendations of works that are interesting in context of this course. In…
This is the season of the year where students can enroll for courses from the second semester. Confusion and error messages spread through the Whatsapp groups. Courses feel like buried treasures buried under cryptic course numbers and walls of windows. The fact that there are different sessions or professors make everything more blurry. It doesn’t help that the Brightspace and Usis don’t…
In this third and last top 3 about digital and paper I will speak about some apps. We already saw some of them in the first article that allowed to write on a digital typewriter and in the second one that allowed to read e-books. But there are some other interesting things that I’m going to present now. We saw how people…