Grace and Unnur are back with this part one of a two-parter podcast series talking of movies related to social media!
Continue reading...Help! I am a digital hoarder
Let’s talk about stuff. LOADS of stuff!Well…what is that stuff I’m talking about then? Here, I mean in particular the things that we collect and store...
Continue reading...How digital media made me doubt my relationships
Digital media, in all its forms, is so present in our contemporary lives that it’s not odd if you end up comparing your own, very real,...
Continue reading...True crime – the two sides of amateur criminology
Digitalization and worldwide Internet accessibility have led to interesting developments in the world of criminology. Dozens of cases have been solved due to the availability of...
Continue reading...The Tetris Effect
In 1984 in Moscow, Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer, invented the first version of the game Tetris. The goal of the game is simple; rotate and...
Continue reading...Pipelines and rabbit holes: Falling prey to algorithms
I was fully prepared to make my next blog post about Minecraft – I had a whole idea prepared and everything. But then, while having a...
Continue reading...Dungeons and Dragons and Digital spaces
What is Dungeons and Dragons? Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D for short, is a tabletop RPG where the core is storytelling and the goal is having...
Continue reading...Spotify wrapped: most wonderful time of the year
It Wednesday December 1 and I open Instagram and see a story that fills me with so much joy and excitement. It is a story that...
Continue reading...Using digital photography to make historical portraits come to life (Not literally)
I have been fascinated with history, among other things, portraits of the medieval era. It makes me wonder how people actually looked like in that time,...
Continue reading...The allure of online shopping
Today it’s the 26th of November… Exactly: Black Friday. The day that all shops, either physical or online, offer incredible sales on many products. Especially technical...
Continue reading...Digital Double Standards between parents and their children
“Could you please lay your phone down, we’re having dinner!” says my mother often to my brothers. When I go to my parents’ house and eat...
Continue reading...Human-Animal Chimeras; how far can we go?
When looking into the subject of cyborgs, one of the most interesting things in my opinion is that of the Chimera. A Chimera is an organism...
Continue reading...“Social Media makes people think their opinion matter too much”
I don’t remember exactly when it was, or who exactly said it, but I once heard someone say that the problem with this generation is that...
Continue reading...Voice or text?
Voice messages are a type of messages that are not typed on a keyboard but recorded by a person saying something and sent as an audio...
Continue reading...Podcast digital education
In this podcast Hinako and Lyzanne discuss digital education during corona in higher education.
Continue reading...UNSEE US: NO MASS SURVEILLANCE ON LEIDEN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
Imagine a building you’re obligated to enter every week, where cameras are faced on every entrance and exit. These cameras are owned by a company which...
Continue reading...Sustaining your business in a digital age — according to the KvK
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Hey, let’s be activists IRL tomorrow! — digital activism
A few weeks ago, I went to the climate march in Amsterdam. I had heard about it through a recommended Instagram post on my feed and...
Continue reading...Fast fashion and influencers: social media made me buy it!
As Black Friday is approaching and has increased in popularity in The Netherlands, I thought it would be interesting to write about the impact of social...
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