The phenomenon of nostalgia, and its status in the internet age has been a regular point of discussion and thought in many of my blog posts...
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(video essay) This Message is For You: When Spirituality Enters TikTok
I have been thinking about the relationship between digital media, especially TikTok, and spirituality for a while now. How does spirituality change when mediated by the...
Continue reading...Hito Steyerl and the Image Overstimulation
Thinking of digital art I remembered an exhibition I saw at the Stedelijk Museum in 2022. It was I will survive, an overview of works by...
Continue reading...I: Immersive Narratives and IDFA 2023
From the 8th to the 19th of November, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam is hosted in the cinemas of Amsterdam, presenting socially engaged documentaries from around the globe....
Continue reading...[VIDEO] Building Sandcastles: OpenAI and its closed future
by Lorenzo Piero Holder As I strolled along the shores of the North Sea, memories flooded back—days of building sandcastles with my sister. While at first...
Continue reading...(Podcast) Parasocial Relationships: From “Pookie Nation” to Oli London’s Marriage with Jimin (of BTS)
Have you ever been called “Pookie?” Or perhaps you have encountered Prayag Mishra’s “Pookie” TikTok or Reel on Instagram? Inspired by the new “Pookie” trend, we have explored levels of parasocial relationships in the digital environment! Join!
Continue reading...(Podcast) Parasocial Relationships: From “Pookie Nation” to Oli London’s Marriage with Jimin (of BTS)
Have you ever been called “pookie”? Or perhaps you have encountered Prayag Mishra’s “Pookie” Tiktok or Reel on Instagram? Inspired by the new “Pookie” trend, we have explored levels of parasocial relationships in the digital environment. Join!
Continue reading...Accept all cookies.
It feels like the little disclaimer on every webpage asking the user to accept or refuse -if that is even possible- the “cookies” was a snowball...
Continue reading...The Christmas Spirit and Other Consumerist Ghosts
As time moves past the Thanksgiving weekend (or for me, a poor retail employee, past Black Friday), or Halloween, it is officially Christmas time. Not religion-wise,...
Continue reading...Mathematics and/or a Robot
Digital devices are everywhere. They’re in homes, in public transport and also in schools. People have different opinions on smartphones in the classroom. Some want to...
Continue reading...Playing with Humanity: Cyborgs in Cinematic Context
Last week’s lecture made me realise that cyborgs go far beyond what I thought they were. My idea of cyborgs was pretty simplistic: On the one...
Continue reading...Enhancing Museum Experiences through Digitalization
Do you visit museums often? Are you always feeling tired of the traditional way of visiting? As the world gets more digitalized, numerous industries are adapting...
Continue reading...Communities : a social tsunami, Gamestop.
What is the difference between 3000 persons and a group of 3000 persons ? Easy answer, 3000 persons is a mass but a group of 3000...
Continue reading...What is real ?
If you had a phase-you-do-not-speak-of in your teenage years, you might have spent a lot of time discussing in communities online, maybe even doing role play...
Continue reading...PODCAST: “Are you a watcher or a player?”
A movie about an online game with romance in the background. Sounds like a perfect movie to laugh about with your friends. But if I tell...
Continue reading...Digital Detox: How Can Unplugging Improve Your Mental Health
Reddit For Reccomendations
Yahoo Answers, Quora, and Reddit are all platforms in which their content relies on the engagement between the users, and this structure allows people to create...
Continue reading...Black Box of Machine Learning
Machine learning is a great tool that we use on a daily basis. Even though the first example that would come to mind would be Chatgpt, machine...
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