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Digital technology caught me young. I think I was about 5 years old and still a big Dora fan. I remember sitting in front of our...
Continue reading...Is there a Digital God?
Who’s got the power? Initially, I wanted to write about personalised ads and discuss whether they are good or bad. Briefly, companies collect personal data no...
Continue reading...Social Media, It’s time to stop creating rivalries between women for the sake of clicks.
Social Media, It’s time to stop creating rivalries between women for the sake of clicks. Over the last 25 years of new media, countless magazines, tabloids,...
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BlackBerry: A flash in the pan of digital technology
During my flight back to the Netherlands, the film “BlackBerry” took me down memory lane, recalling my first encounters with digital technology. It was an enthralling...
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Early Memory of the Digital: Regulating Emotions
When reflecting upon experiences with digital technology I had when I was little, I immediately thought of the many early mornings spent with my little brother...
Continue reading...From war to mystery pink pigeon- how the same news platforms varies in their content on different media
Zepotha – An amazing 80s horror movie or..?
Have any of you seen that cult 80s horror movie called Zepotha? It used to be on some streaming platforms, but then randomly got taken down...
Continue reading...Newspapers working with technology
I have been in this country for a month now and I call my brother every week, this last time he was talking about our family...
Continue reading...An ode to my first WiFi-connected device
I loved it. I loved all of it: the color, the stylus that came with it, the bag I had bought for it to take it...
Continue reading...Scrolling away the doom: the destruction of human happiness
Browsing the web as means of passing time has been around for some time, yet active, mindless scrolling, that consumes quite a lot of our time,...
Continue reading...Tech-cavemen: imagining the prehistoric social networking
Posting content on social media has become a habit for us millennials and Gen Z, but have you ever wondered what it would have been like...
Continue reading...How Lidl-Trek is leading the competition on Social Media?
Once beloved team Trek-Segafredo changed its main name sponsor to Lidl earlier in 2023. This is not the first time for a supermarket branch has become...
Continue reading...Filtered Reality: How Instagram Fuels Body Image Insecurities
A Love Letter to Mitski’s ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’
Mitski Miyawaki, known by the mononym Mitski, is a Japanese-American singer and songwriter. Her first album Lush was self-released by the artist in 2012 as a...
Continue reading...David Canada and Goliath Zuckerberg
In the boring country where I come from, sometimes, things happen. On 15 June 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government passed Bill C-18, the long...
Continue reading...Every Day is a Day in the Digital
A day in the digital is not just a day but every day. We wake up and pick up our phones that are so conveniently just...
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