Blog – Page 102 – Digital Media, Society, and Culture

Cybertruck

If you’ve been on any social media platform this week, you will most likely have seen the phenomenon that is Elon Musks’ latest product on the...

Digital preservation is important!

When thinking of the term ‘preservation’, the first images in your mind are likely something related to the preservation of flora and fauna, or the preservation...

November 25, 2019 by Connor Culture DH2019 History Technology Video games 0

Caring of the Machines: Gender and Machines

This week’s blog post is a response to a comment left on my blogpost from last week; Fear of the Machines. Which mentioned another way in...

November 25, 2019 by ilsetheeternalstudent AMS2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Culture DH2019 Media Maesters Science Fiction 3

I Have Scraped Our Blogs

Or at least attempted to do so My plan is to scrape all our blogs and run it through Python to see what our most frequent...

November 25, 2019 by Janessa DH2019 0

Writing history in the age of Big Data

Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through...

November 25, 2019 by - DH2019 Digitalized Facebook History Internet Memory Privacy Social Social Media 1

Instant Gratification Pt. 2: What about delayed gratification?

Last post I wrote about instant gratification and how digital media continuously feeds our constant desire for gratification whether it be through the quick shot of...

November 25, 2019 by emilygbarker Media Maesters 1

The ‘stories’ of my life

In the last post, I tried to discuss how the users’ FoMO (fear of missing out) effects and reinforces their constant participating of reading or posting...

November 25, 2019 by Quann Media 0

Connectivity in Death Stranding

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November 25, 2019 by Ewout Art Culture DH2019 Games Internet Media Social Video games 0

Second Life: a second way of learning!

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November 25, 2019 by Eleonora Bartoli AMS2019 Digitalized Education Games Online Platforms Social Technology Virtual Reality (VR) 0

“Mind-reading” technology

Just have a look at the following picture: What do you think is happening here? One might think that the pictures depicted show how an Artificial...

November 25, 2019 by LeonH Artificial Intelligence (AI) DH2019 Health 3

Deepfake technology in the Age of Fake News

Events and information being purposely (mis)presented in misleading or simply malicious ways is no new phenomenon, however since 2016 and Donald Trump, this type of misleading...

November 25, 2019 by Fabism AMS2019 1

Queering Up the Games: Identity Curation

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November 25, 2019 by OnurTayranoglu AMS2019 Consumerism Games Gender Queer Self Social Video games 2

You were right mom

Facebook was launched in 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates at Harvard University. Until 2006, Facebook’s main objective was to connect college students, notably those...

November 25, 2019 by zeynepyilmaz Algorithms AMS2019 Facebook Internet Media Maesters Online Platforms Social Social Media 0

2+2=4 -1=3 Quick Maths…

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November 25, 2019 by T.L. van der Linden Algorithms AMS2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Games Media Maesters Psychology Video games 0

Cloudy With a Chance of Brains

Waking up dead tired on a dreary Saturday morning is never fun, but even more so in November. The sky is grey and it never seems...

November 25, 2019 by Moos AMS2019 Culture Digital Media Digitalization Digitalized Global developments Health History Internet Media Memory Physics Politics Psychology Science Fiction Self Social Technology Virtual Reality (VR) 0

Using the blog as an excuse to express rampant homesickness lol

This weekend, my sister celebrated her 30th birthday in Manresa, Spain, where she has been living for the past 4 years. My whole family (mum, dad,...

November 25, 2019 by LorenzaRose Media Maesters 1

What Does Our Facebook Profile Say About Us?

There are an immense amount of social media platforms current, probably we don’t even know about some of them. However, Facebook is probably the one that...