Last week, in my blog about VRChat, I wrote towards the end that I am a furry. To some people, that term might not ring a...
Continue reading...Taxing the Tech Giants: What Can We Do?
The influence that the tech giants have over our lives is evident; yet, their shady dealings are a lesser-known side of these modern monoliths Something we...
Continue reading...Why are women so underrepresented in eSports?
Hi everyone. This week, I decided to take a look at why women make up half of all gamers, but are so disproportionately underrepresented in eSports....
Continue reading...Reaction channels on Youtube, their popularity and controversies
The popularity of reaction channels on Youtube is high, and has been for several years. I myself follow quite a lot of reaction channels. A simple...
Continue reading...Movie Mania (pt. 1): The Social Dilemma
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...
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