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On 9 januari 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone on stage at the Macworld conference with the words: “every once in a while, a revolutionary product...
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During the lecture on cyborgs, a TV series I had not thought about in a while crossed my mind. It’s called Westworld. It premiered in 2016...
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LinkedIn is a professional networking website, with an orientation toward business and employment, launched in 2003 by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, and...
Continue reading...From a Videogame to a Nr. 1 Netflix Series: the Evolution of League of Legends
League of Legends, or LoL for short, is a 2009 online multiplayer video game in which you work in teams and battle one another. Sounds simple...
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I was planning on writing about cookies, not biscuit but HTTP cookies. However, due to the current events going on at Leiden University, I decided to...
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Technology never seems to stop evolving and our lives get more and more submerged in it. Especially with the COVID-19 pandemic having many people spending more...
Continue reading...Fake Reviews on Amazon
Have you ever eyed an item on Amazon, checked out the amazing positive reviews, ordered it, and when you received it you were completely disappointed? This...
Continue reading...Should you microchip your pets?
If you have a pet you probably at one point thought or questioned about what you would do if they ran away or if they would...
Continue reading...Is Subway a person? Personifying Companies Through Social Media Influencers
This blog is a continuation of a previous blog “Corporate Tik Tok”. After my research on how corporate companies are creating personas for themselves and redefining...
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Before you start making things up in your mind, I will have to disappoint you: no, Putin did not teach me Russian himself. I am referring...
Continue reading...The ghosts of the internet
If there is one certainty in life, it is that eventually, everything will end. This is also true for anything on the internet. From viral videos,...
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What I’ve noticed in our generation and its relation to media consumption is that even when we’re busy doing one task, we like to consume some...
Continue reading...The new snake oil marketplace
Today I read a news article about Dutch influencer Donny Roelvink who apologized for recommending a cosmetic medical procedure. He had had porcelain plates added to...
Continue reading...Hidden Corners of Chinese Dissents——r/chonglangTV
(WARNING: May include racism and other unpleasant contents in the following!) Under China’s intense speech censorship and online surveillance, there is less and less room for...
Continue reading...MetaBirkins, how to be posh in the Metaverse.
A couple of weeks ago there was a lecture on the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg’s new interpretation and creation of an online community. So, what is the...
Continue reading...Gold Farming in World of Warcraft
In one of my courses, we learned about the different methods that some users take in racially profiling other players in the online game World of...
Continue reading...Accessibility on Social Media
There has been a movement on social media to make the platforms more accessible toward people with vision and hearing impairments – such as introducing closed...
Continue reading...The end of the 2000-2010s vlogging era
After a day of classes and studying in high school there was nothing I enjoyed more than coming home and watching YouTube. More specifically, checking what...
Continue reading...Online Child Grooming – TW
I’m pretty sure everyone has shuddered at the thought of their (future) children being on social media at one point or another. It’s not because we...
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