Obsessing over a celebrity’s life has perhaps been, in my opinion, one of the most explicit proofs of how today the lines between the public and...
Continue reading...A Lifetime in the Digital
The buzzing of an alarm clock, music or podcast dialogues filling rooms, texts and emails popping up on every screen: these are just a sprinkling of...
Continue reading...Beyond the Firewall: Tricksters and Players
Recently, I had to wake my predator instinct up and go on a house hunt to find a place to live in Leiden. No traditional method...
Continue reading...A Day in the Digital
My day begins in a world where virtual reality and digital technologies are perfectly intertwined with daily living in this digital era. Allow me to take...
Continue reading...My Morning Ritual: Nostalgia in the Digital Age
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Polite Speech in Jujutsu Kaisen: How Translation Impacts the Source Material
Translation is an integral part of creating and maintaining communication. It is a very powerful tool that helps bridge gaps between cultures, customs, and communities by...
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Why are we so obsessed with following each other’s Instagram?
A seemingly absurd question: what is Instagram? How would you define the purpose of Instagram as a social media platform if someone were to ask you?...
Continue reading...Viral Sensations of Aliens – Hoax or Scientific Discovery?
Mexico’s recent findings have sparked a huge online debate. It is about the two ‘alien corpses’ revealed by the Mexican congress on 12 September. For many...
Continue reading...The paradox of cancel-culture – Is it creating more toxicity rather than decreasing it?
Perhaps one of the most important parts of social media is finding the “person” we want to put out there. At the end of the day...
Continue reading...Dating in the age of Tinder
Relationships don’t look as they used to before. It is no longer a standard to get a girl flowers and take her dancing. Going out for...
Continue reading...A day in the digital: Spend the day with me and my bestie (iPhone)
Wake up lazy bu**!!! Your phone alarm is vibrating. This is the first thing my brain think about every morning… I wish I were Barbie, so...
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Granny’s Baby Steps Online
Never too old to learn. My grandmother is almost 80 years old. Still, she is full of energy. She goes for a walk or a bike...
Continue reading...Much a-click about nothing
Everyone can use a good title, be it for a novel, an article or a film. For this blog entry, for example, “Clickbaiting: Typology and Subtextual...
Continue reading...A Day in the Digital: Temporal notions of “worth”
As of writing this blog post, I have caught a bit of a cold. Days like these are marked by an increase of screen time in...
Continue reading...NFTs: Fad or the Future of Art?
The art world is no stranger to the increasingly rapid, and brutal, trend cycles of the digital age. Nonetheless, the desire to stick to our centuries...
Continue reading...Homunculus Loxodontus: From Art to a Russian Meme
I first came across this odd-looking creature on the album cover of Sand by Balthazar. I did not think much of it apart from it possibly...
Continue reading...Alone but Together: A Modern Paradox – Is the Internet Making Us Lonely?
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The trend audio ‘girl dinner’
Earlier in this course, Leila M. wrote about how the digital media ia a stage filled with “nothing but actors”. One of the examples she gave...
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