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Forensic Architecture are a collective of researchers led Eyal Weizman based at Goldsmiths University in London. The team of architects, scientists and artists work as forensic...
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BeReal, the new social media platform that has recently taken the world by storm, has already been the protagonist of several blog posts on this website....
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Rolling backwards: Unimodality in a multimodal digital sphere
Note: The concept posited in this article are developed through author’s own observation From gestures and spoken languages to books, radios and TV, civilisations have witnessed...
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Did it ever happen to you that your phone got stolen? Well, it happened to me recently, on the 14th of October, on a Friday to...
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Recently, we tidied some cabinets around the house and found a bunch of old DVDs. Most of them were titles that sounded like shitty mobile games...
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Recently Obsidian, an app I have been using since 2020 had its 1.0 release. Using this app has changed the way I study, in a good...
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During the 2020 outbreak of Corona, as I was born in Wuhan, I have nowhere to go in China. Thus, I bought a flight ticket to...
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Hello and welcome to the third podcast episode made by Ceiba Dick-Read, Max Alexandre and Gijs Mesman. In this episode, Ceiba is host and introduces the...
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My offline role “I am currently a third-year student doing a minor in Digital Humanities at Leiden University.” This is definitely how I introduce myself to...
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Young or old, internet adept or average enjoyer, we have all been confronted with what seems to define internet culture in a nutshell: memes. In fact,...
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I developed a sentiment of rebellion against the propaganda at a very early age, not because I was a genius who realized the nature of the...
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Between the Good and the Evil – the Growth of Online Cults.
To many of us the use of the internet has become a significant part of life. An infinite source of knowledge, information, and fun – a...
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Bayonetta 3, a sequel in the popular Bayonetta videogame series, is set to launch on October 28th. This is great news for any fans of the...
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In this video, I talk about a big-picture perspective on the digital by looking at politics. Namely, I cover the influence of the United States and...
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