Learning through games is a concept that has been around for quite some time now. ‘Tricking’ children into learning seems to be what this concept is...
Continue reading...Mind the Ga p: Sans Forgetica
Do we need more typefaces or individual fonts? As my last blog mentioned – we do a lot of reading on and off screen. Therefore, the...
Continue reading...Who is Robert Galbraith?
It is presumable that some of you already know the answer to the above question. But first let me explain, at least for the ignorant among...
Continue reading...Agenda Setting
Since the rise of new media, the media academia has struggled to follow the new spectrum of possibilities. They had to reassemble almost every theory...
Continue reading...Pokémon Go, our virtual playground
“Playgrounds are everywhere once you start looking.” I’m sure everyone here has played (or at least heard of) Pokémon Go, the mobile game that took the...
Continue reading...A Brief Introduction to Online Extremism
In my previous blog, I introduced my plan to dig into the relationship between digital media and communities based on extreme ideas. Since then, I’ve reached...
Continue reading...Get fit with Wii Fit
I like Pokémon Go. It forces me to go outside in order to play and I personally find that a good thing. A side effect of...
Continue reading...A meme a day keeps the doctor away
“An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.” This definition...
Continue reading...Original – Sequel – Threequel?
In the world of media – particularly in the world of movies and games, developers and producers always try to create a best-selling product that would...
Continue reading...RSVP: What the Dickens!
In Charles Dicken’s Bleak House, a major theme of the book is reading and the inability to read – who can and who cannot read. One...
Continue reading...Fan Art and a 41 Minute Piano Medley
In case you haven’t noticed yet, I have an incredible craving for music. I’m always ready for new album releases, new music video’s, new covers… I...
Continue reading...A wave of digital icons
“By the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the digital image […] became a powerful tool for simulating reality that will deceive in future...
Continue reading...Pinocchio and his digital translation
‘Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.’ This was just the beginning of the fairytale of Pinocchio, an animated wooden marionette dreaming of...
Continue reading...Picture Perfect?
Nothing is what it seems. Not only magicians and politicians are experts at hiding the truth, arguably everyone participating on social media is some kind of...
Continue reading...Double-keying
Computers can do anything or almost anything. They can even read books with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Images from printed pages are converted...
Continue reading...Hatsune Miku vs Human Voice
In my last two posts, I talked about Hatsune Miku, Vocaloid and utaite (see “Hatsune Miku, the idol who doesn’t exist” and “Mere cover artists performing...
Continue reading...Digital Hate Culture
As I’m sure we all know, digital media has led to a rise in hate culture that has been on all sorts of digital platforms, be...
Continue reading...Doomed to fail?
This week I am going to predict something. When I wrote about Tamagotchis a few weeks back I talked about how companies utilize people’s feelings of...
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