The digital platform Pinterest was co-founded by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, and Paul Sciarra in 2010. Silbermann, who had previously worked in online advertising, acknowledged that...
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Recently, I watched a short documentary from the Guardian about Chinese women who travel to other countries, like the United States, hoping to become mothers. These...
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I spent hours curating my Pinterest boards—perfecting the balance between “clean girl” minimalism and “quiet luxury” refinement. At one point, I racked up over a million...
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Self-driving cars, autonomous household-androids, advanced artificial intelligence – the future that Tesla is aiming for. You would be able to relax, as the Cybercab would drive...
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Whether/how should digital content be regulated? The question of whether/how content in digital media should be regulated came to my attention again through the blog: “Censorship...
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Due to sickness, my screen time has increased massively in the past few weeks. I have been watching a lot of videos on YouTube, which is...
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The internet has been known to have a little nook and cranny for every niche interest out there. People who express their interests in fun and...
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With the capabilities of (generative) AI on the rise, individuals and companies have adapted and changed their workflow to fully exploit the benefits AI offers. Companies...
Continue reading...Hate, Passivity, and the Decline of Media Literacy
It is true that a pen is mightier than a sword. Words and images communicate messages that have the power to influence us. To create media...
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On Friday, NOS, the main news outlet in the Netherlands, headlined: “Talkshow met Mozes? Bijbelgenootschap en EO hacken de Bijbel met AI” [Talkshow with Moses? The...
Continue reading...Navigating the Digital Afterlife: What Happens to Our Digital Remains?
With the increasingly digitalized world we live in, our online presence is both larger and more important than ever. We make and leave behind an extensive...
Continue reading...Facebook: An Old People’s App
In the times where TikTok is probably the main app gen Z and gen Alpha (?) uses, applications like Facebook became, well, at least in my...
Continue reading...Essentiality of Social Media: Reinstalling Instagram after 7 months
In a beautiful morning sometime around March 2024, I decided to delete Instagram from my phone. For the longest time, I struggled with doom scrolling on...
Continue reading...Algorithms: A Human Tool for the Greatest Good, the Ugliest Evil, and all that Lies in Between
I am once again, sitting in my room, in front of my computer, writing my sixth and final blog. Behind me is my record player, spinning...
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Sometimes, when I walk into an exhibition and see a huge wall of text right at the start, I immediately feel overwhelmed. The barrage of abstract,...
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In the late 18th century, Jeremy Bentham developed the concept of the Panopticon, a prison design that allowed one guard to observe all prisoners. The inmates...
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Threads is a social media platform primarily focused on short text posts and is one of the products under Meta, launched in 2023. According to data...
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As we discussed in class this week, algorithms are becoming an increasingly significant part of our daily lives. One app that consistently makes me question how...
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I am not really a fan of Al Khwarizmi, I never understood Algebra, and I never approved the algorithmic approach in the first place. In fact,...
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