Recently I flipped through a photo album put together by my parents about my first few years. The album was pulled out to show my boyfriend....
Continue reading...Where in the World Is PenPal World?
The first time I held my iPad, I felt as if I had opened a small door into an unknown universe. I had just finished the...
Continue reading...YouTube is everywhere
When we think about the digital world, one platform seems to stand out above all others: YouTube. What began as a small website to share videos...
Continue reading...Why I’m Still Grateful I Learned Maps the Old-School Way
Getting Lost as a Kid When I was eight or nine years old, I was in scouts and trying to figure out how to cross the...
Continue reading...Social media is a very complicated performance
Recently I’ve been thinking about how to organise my social media life. What to post, where to post, how to post. This led me reflect about...
Continue reading...Mind Starved
“Our modern community is mind-starved and mind-hungry. It is justifiably uneasy and suspicious of the quality of what it gets. The hungry sheep look up and...
Continue reading...Drowning in Data: Are We Really Free in the Digital Age?
Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is pick up my phone, scrolling through the latest news, social media updates, and endless...
Continue reading...How to doxx someone
If you post pictures on Instagram, you are helping doxxers find you. Though this may sound like a small exaggeration, I assure you it is not....
Continue reading...TikTok Told Me So
At 7am every Sunday morning, my dad gets up to go buy his weekly newspaper. Whatever stories get published throughout the week, he reads on his...
Continue reading...Is it Necessary to Watch the News, and Should We Trust What We See?
A few weeks ago, I watched the news about a murder case in Tokyo. Since then, I have been haunted by nightmares- running away from a...
Continue reading...The EU Thinks You’re a Pedofile
The scheming EU Commission bureaucrats in Brussels have come up with a new disgusting scheme to mass surveil us. They want to introduce something called “Chat...
Continue reading...Embracing Open-Source Software, and a Vision for the Future…
The once biggest YouTuber, Pewdiepie, relatively recently uploaded a video explaining his switch from Windows to Linux. I was quickly amazed at the amount of customisations...
Continue reading...Could TikTok replace Google?
I google. In short that would answer the question ‘how do you find information and knowledge on digital technologies and media?’ However, the manner in which...
Continue reading...Truth engines? How information finds us in the digital age.
It is a sign of our time – an era often referred to as the “information age” (Galloway, 111) – that media is generally understood as...
Continue reading...ChatGPT As Therapy?
My mother came to me the other day quite baffled by the actions of her close friend; she explained to me how her friend would diagnose...
Continue reading...Trying to Make Myself Not Scared of The Internet (Part 1)
If you read my blog last week, you might remember me talking about seing people getting shot on Youtube as a kid and how this affected...
Continue reading...Should Smartphone Use be Restricted by Authorities?
In last week’s class discussion, it was interesting to hear my classmates’ experiences with smartphone and other digital device restrictions in their early childhoods. Since we...
Continue reading...before instagram there were oil portraits
This weekend I did a solo day trip to Antwerp and had a blast at the KSMKA museum. Walking through the rooms, I ended up in...
Continue reading...The Algorithm Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
We’ve all had that moment: you’re scrolling through Instagram or TikTok, and suddenly a post appears that feels a little too accurate. Maybe it’s the exact...
Continue reading...Scrolling vs. Learning : how I get informed online
For a long time, I used to convince myself that spending hours on TikTok and X was somehow necessary because it was the only way to...
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