Hello and welcome to the fith podcast episode made by Ceiba Dick-Read, Max Alexandre and Gijs Mesman. In this episode, Max is unfortunately missing, but luckily...
Continue reading...Close, yet closer: Reality TV and social media
With the increase of livestreaming and the subsequent drama, it feels like reality TV is getting closer to me, more and more present in my own home. Or am I going crazy?
Continue reading...The dark side of a highly personalized “For You” page – video
Hello Everyone! In this video, I will talk about TikTok’s selection of content and its role in the insurgence of addiction. For the definition of “addiction”...
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Podcast: Digital Soundscape Episode 2 – digital sound from personal to public(by Annabel, Augustina)
As we introduced in the last episode, “the podcast series Digital Soundscape consists of 5 different episodes, which aim to offer deeper insights into digital sounds...
Continue reading...LGBT identities in League of Legends
It’s been a big year for the League of Legends community, the most recent big event being DRX winning the World’s Championship against the undefeated T1....
Continue reading...Death Stranding: Why We Connect?
Death Stranding is an open-world walking simulator with action elements, released in November 2019 by the Kojima Productions of the legendary game producer Hideo Kojima. The...
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Modern warfare – the battle of the sexes and sexualization of women online.
Nowadays, very few of us are unfamiliar with the sexualization of women online. Whether it’s in the movies, tv shows, or video games, it appears that...
Continue reading...Free Speech!! Except… You Don’t – The Changes on Twitter and the Meaning of Free Speech
We probably all have heard it… Elon Musk finally bought Twitter. How bad can it be?! Well… As someone who uses Twitter quite a lot (don’t...
Continue reading...When something tragic happened: Seoul Halloween Crowd Crush and unfiltered content of this tragedy in social media.
Social media, such as Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc, has become a platform for creating and consuming content. Hereby, among many other functionalities of social media, it...
Continue reading...The Apple of my Eye – Podcast: Do Screens Affect Eyesight?
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...
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