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...
Continue reading...TikTok – A new Source for News?
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Why are (strategic) management/logistics games so satisfying?
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Exploring Wilderness in Minecraft
Minecraft is the most popular video game to this day. One of its hallmarks is its unbound territory that is free to explore by the player...
Continue reading...Why we shouldn’t presume that the web is flat
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Digital Media as a stage filled with nothing but actors
All the world’s a stage’’ You might have heard that quote before, it comes from one of Shakespear’s plays, As You Like It, but what does...
Continue reading...Game Agency and its Establishment, Unintentionalities, and Boundaries
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Regulation of social media platform policy and monopolies
In this article, I explain why stricter and more proactive regulating of social media platforms such as the DSA and DMA are essential, and explain what aspects of this regulation are important.
Continue reading...Toward a different perspective on web-based objects
Introduction What are web-based objects, or what might they be? Since objects are culturally constituted, it is interesting to ask how the increasingly digital and internet-oriented...
Continue reading...Cyborgs are among us
‘’Implanting microchips directly into your brain is a scientific trope’’ well yes, but actually no. Yes, as in it is definitely not a technology that is...
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