The cultural link made between individualism and memory has been a consistent factor in the history of human thought. Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke even hypothesised that...
Continue reading...The Nintendo DS – My First Grasp of the Digital
PODCAST: “Behind closed doors”
Have you ever scrolled through someone’s profile and ended up on some random person’s profile feeling like you’ve known them for some time? If the answer...
Continue reading...Fun Game: A Run through Wikipedia
Every Saturday I go to scouting. People often ask what scouts do. Well, the fun thing is that we do something different every week. Sometimes we...
Continue reading...New Language, New Me: How Language Reflects Personality
Have you ever been told by someone that you sound different depending on which one of your languages you speak? Moreover, have you ever been described...
Continue reading...I no longer enjoy reading – books and media (part 1)
One thing about me is that I have been obsessed with books for a while now. Not just as in reading books, but collecting them, spending...
Continue reading...Netflix’s “Sex Education”: The Role of TV Series in Addressing Intimacy
Is it possible to create a TV series that talks about mental health, identity, and sexuality among young people, all while offering an educational perspective? And...
Continue reading...The close connection between the online and offline world of Breeze
The cue for this week’s blog post is as follows: Where in the world is X located, X being a social platform of your own choice...
Continue reading...What does “the web” look like ? 1/3
A little bit of context : We all know the internet as an intangible entity, a digitized world on its own. However, the internet has a...
Continue reading...Rainbows and Role Models: Why Inclusive Children’s Media Matters
All the (Digital) Censorships I Witnessed, Will It Ever Get Better? (Part I)
I am from Turkey, I lived there before moving to the Netherlands. I have never witnessed any other government than the current one. This being said...
Continue reading...What difference does it make?
A long time ago, one of my uni colleagues got into the habit of looking inside Microsoft Word files. Instead of opening the file by double-clicking...
Continue reading...The effects of education on later digital behaviour
When reading last week’s inspiration (What is your earliest memory of digital media?) and talking about others in class and the discussion group, it got me...
Continue reading...Why Vinyl Records are making a Comeback in the Age of Streaming
Would you like to be a digital being?
In the Wandering Earth film, there is an argument that when the Earth can no longer meet the survival needs of human beings, should human beings...
Continue reading...Can we influence the influence? Limits of willpower
To be perfectly honest, Instagram sometimes feels like this post. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @patiasfantasyworld Social media can leave one with...
Continue reading...Did You Know That we Are Experiencing FOMO?
In the vast explosion of the informational age, people seem to have incredible freedom to access every corner of the internet. Websites within websites, links within...
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