I remember attending a lecture several years ago that focused primarily on the 3D structures of proteins and their importance in drug discovery. It being both...
Continue reading...The Death of Connection in the Digital World
Something that has popping up a lot on my mind lately is the feeling of being (dis)connected. The English Cambridge Dictionary defines “connection” (feeling) as: “feeling...
Continue reading...What Faded Away in Time
As a millennial, we literally were born on the edge of the digital world, and the era before. Outdated products were disposed of, and replaced by...
Continue reading...The rise of reality TV: A Cultural Shift We Can’t Ignore
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Byte-Sized History: Key Milestones in Digital Media
Since harnessing the power of digits, we’ve been able to do a bunch of cool stuff with it. It hasn’t even been 100 years, and we’ve...
Continue reading...An audience of one in a post-information age
In his widely known book Being Digital (1995), Nicholas Negroponte describes what he calls the post-information age; an age of rapidly emerging technologies and ever-evolving electronics....
Continue reading...The iPad, the iPhone, the iPod and the iPet: The Advent of Microchips
To the vast majority of animal owners the installation of a microchip under your pets skin can represent a milestone moment of the early stage of...
Continue reading...Otome game: Empowerment or Reinforcement
In the film her, released in 2013, Theodore falls in love with the AI in his phone. However, he cannot declare his love to the world...
Continue reading...Electric Eye
Introduction Any attempt to answer the question “what analog[ue] technologies […] are part of/at the roots of [(ALL)] digital technology” will, for certain, raise a number...
Continue reading...Digital VS Analog: Music
I am once again back in my room, typing on my computer. As per usual, I have put on a record to listen to as I...
Continue reading...CDs and digital cameras; vinyl records and Polaroids of the 2020s?
Vinyl records and Polaroid cameras don’t remind me of the 70’s or the decades surrounding it. They remind me of the 2010s. Thanks to the hipster...
Continue reading...From the first cell phone to today
I’m sitting on my parents’ old couch at a family celebration. It’s a very funny, relaxed atmosphere when my mother gets up and announces promisingly that...
Continue reading...How Information Now Changes My Digital Practice
I remember when I was in elementary school, the teacher would always say ‘Just ask Google if you don’t know something.’ I tried entering a keyword...
Continue reading...The power of sharing in the world of throwing
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Digitization and Retribalization
When thinking of a topic to write about this week on digital media, my mind wandered immediately back to a book I read some time ago,...
Continue reading...A mobile game made me feel old
After I just finished reading some mandatory literature in the university library, I walked down to the cafeteria to eat my lunch. As I start eating...
Continue reading...My Digital Nostalgia
On our Christmas holiday we went to California with the whole family. My brother who is three years older than me saved up a lot of...
Continue reading...First Digital Memory: Online Chess
It’s funny how certain childhood memories stick with us, like vivid snapshots from a time when everything seemed bigger, slower, and full of mystery. One of...
Continue reading...The Chess-boom of 2021
This isn’t just a story about a boring old board game. This is a story about how a worldwide pandemic, a hit Netflix series, a scandal...
Continue reading...A digital journey to ‘Empresses in the Palace’
“Empresses in the Palace” (Chinese: Zhen Huan Zhuan) is a Chinese historical drama series adapted from the novel of the same name by the author Liu...
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