Dries Depoorter: privacy piracy?
After reading an interview with Belgian concept artist Dries Depoorter, I am surprised part of his portfolio has not been presented on this website yet, so...
Continue reading...The Price We Pay To Social Media Platforms
In this video I talk about our allowances to social media platforms. How they are used and what implications they can have. Information sources:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfczi2cI6Cs Image sources :https://helloyummy.co/baked-feta-pasta-recipe/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inCfwKUl5g8https://www.byrdie.com/tiktok-fashion-trends-2022-5216166https://thegreatcandyrun.com/our-attention-our-most-precious-and-scarce-resource/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgRb7tn7hTAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfczi2cI6Cs
Continue reading...Unnamed Podcast Episode 4: The layers of memes and their relation to conveying information
Hello and welcome to the fourth podcast episode made by Ceiba Dick-Read, Max Alexandre and Gijs Mesman. In this episode, Gijs is host and introduces the...
Continue reading...fur-midable content
I am a pre-homo sapien hunter, fearing for my life as I am chased by a sabre-toothed cat through the forest. I am a pillaging viking,...
Continue reading...The trauma of tragedy brought on by SNS
Last Saturday, there was a big tragedy in Itaewon, Korea. Itaewon is a famous street in Korea, and Halloween is one of the biggest events in...
Continue reading...“Burn Before Reading” How WeChat Censors Pictures and Videos
According to a study published by Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, Canada, WeChat – the largest social platform in China with...
Continue reading...Walking Simulators: Interactive Storytelling in Video Games
Before video games were a widespread form of entertainment, stories usually only came from movies and books. Even when they did start to pick up steam...
Continue reading...The playful side of Google: Doodles!
(Podcast) A Lovely Conversation – Ep 1: Romance on Social Media
The chained (networked) society
The Sound of Our Magnetic Field
I have never considered the fact that the Earth’s magnetic field could produce any sound. However, the Technical University of Denmark has taken the magnetic field...
Continue reading...Have you noticed them on the streets of Leiden?
AGE, SEX, LOCATION – a tale of online misdemeanor.
While we’ve already discussed the rise of cults and certain persons with the growth of Digital Media, a significant part of internet remains undiscovered. As Andrew...
Continue reading...Voyage of Digitality & the Internet: Podcast 02
Introduction Welcome to the Voyage of Digitality & the Internet. In the second episode, Ljubiša Metikoš, PhD legal researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR)...
Continue reading...Two sides of the same coin: a very wonky sentiment analysis of private accounts
The week before midterms, the writing prompt was “what is your favourite online identity?”. Of course, I’ll act somewhat differently online. When you have a whole...
Continue reading...16 years of MaraPets: a virtual pet site (Podcast)
Trend Analysis: Who is “that girl”? (part 2)
Welcome to the second part of Trend Analysis: “That Girl”! Last week I conducted an experiment where I, true to the “that girl” routine, attempted to...
Continue reading...Armchair Activism or the lazy protest
Recently my Instagram Feed has been filled with reposts of all kinds of posts about the current protests in Iran. I am sure most of you...
Continue reading...Digital GFE
‘GFE’ means ‘GirlFriend Experience’. This service is provided, usually by prostitutes, to give you the experience of having a girlfriend in a day or on an...
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