Podcasting feels revolutionary in this digital age. While video and images conquer the Internet and speed shortens our attention span, podcasting feels like a relief in...
Continue reading...Stories Taking Over: Why Every Platform Wants Us to Post What Disappears
Every morning, I open Instagram, not to scroll my feed, but to tap through stories. They vanish after 24 hours, yet they somehow feel more real...
Continue reading...Medium of the Library in our Pocket
Ebooks – the incredible invention of our time, allowing us to read something as massive as the 5th Harry Potter on something as tiny as an...
Continue reading...How the computer has affected my creative process of writing.
For this week’s blog I want to reflect on how I was taught to write essays (in hand) vs. how I write them now (on a...
Continue reading...“There’s No Tone in Texting!” – Phil Dunphy
This month, a student board I’m on held a communication style presentation session. Not the usual meeting to plan an event, or to give updates and...
Continue reading...How Short Video Platforms Shape Information
The development of the internet has brought about an information explosion, but the day is only 24 hours long. A movie takes two hours, and a...
Continue reading...Podcasting: Shaping the Message
Podcasting, it is everywhere. On your phone, in your car, at the gym or even while you are cooking dinner. Everyone seems to be listening to...
Continue reading...Where in the world is everyone I met on StreetPass?
When I was younger, I never left home without my Nintendo 3DS. Not because I wanted to play Mario Kart or Animal Crossing every five minutes...
Continue reading...What is the deal with AI and the EU?
Artificial intelligence is shaping our world faster than any other technology before it. But while the U.S. lets companies innovate freely and China embraces state control,...
Continue reading...Where in the world is proper IT education?*
(probably some countries, but not mine) Outdated IT lessons Nowadays, as the digital world’s impact is becoming impossible to ignore, more and more countries are introducing...
Continue reading...from come to brazil to zap zap: where is social media in (insert country of your choice here)?
If you’re really into pop music and also chronically online, you’ve probably come across a few “Come to Brazil” comments on a celebrity’s social media post....
Continue reading...Why Are Pets Going Viral Online?
The Rise of Pet Influencers As a cat lover myself, I sometimes enjoy watching funny cat videos and sharing them with my sisters in our group...
Continue reading...Where MUBI and Netflix collide
In todays world there are so many streaming services to choose from that you can almost drown in the choices. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max etc....
Continue reading...Being Seen as a Message
When I scroll through Instagram these days, I don’t just see content but choices. Indeed I see filters, angles, light composition, caption, hashtags and even the...
Continue reading...Archive of Our Own-Where in the world is AO3 world?
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great...
Continue reading...Where on Earth is the Floppy Disk?
There’s this post that I came across while scrolling on Instagram, and it definitely comes back to me every now and then: It’s one of those...
Continue reading...Where does TikTok belong in World Politics?
I was entering my final year of high school when TikTok took off. For a brief period there, it was used as intended and reached the...
Continue reading...Masks of Myself in the Digital Maze
Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Netflix, Youtube, Apple TV, Eurostar App, Wattpad, Apple Music, Duolingo, Spotify, Bookly, Iphone, Ipad, Kindle, Discord, Whatsapp, Google maps, Linkedin…. The list of...
Continue reading...Where in the World is Instagram? The Afterlife of a Banned App in Mainland China
Mark Zuckerberg once claimed that “people use their real names on Facebook […] and I think that’s a really simple social solution to a possibly complex...
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