What is a subculture? From an etymological perspective, the word subculture must be divided into two parts to be deciphered. Sub is a Latin prefix meaning...
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History on the internet often takes the form of just another plotline, some facts and events that we scroll through, enjoy, and quickly forget. Something completely...
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Sometimes I find it hard to come up with a topic for a blog post. Since this is my last one, I wanted to try something...
Continue reading...My pitch for a better autocorrect
As I was texting my friends about a birthday gift for someone, I replied: “Dat is vast een leuke verassing.” [That’s probably a nice cremation]. For...
Continue reading...The Impact of Porn Industry on Conceptions About Intimacy
I can 99% be sure that most of us have at least opened mainstream pornography websites like PornHub for pleasure, curiosity, fun or perhaps just by...
Continue reading...‘Tāfáng’ Culture to Ordinary People
Tafang (塌房) literally means ‘the house collapses’. In recent years, it refers to the real image of a celebrity that is found contradictory with what is...
Continue reading...Curated Lives: Let me show you the best of me
I often feel that I am living in the ‘Rear Window’ of a Hitchcock film. For me, the Internet is like a telescope in the hands...
Continue reading...A Lurker’s Confession
The diverse and segmented functions of social media allow each person to find their own digital space, where they can build connections with family, friends, and...
Continue reading...Reviving Cinema: Film Restoration in the Digital Age
Thanks to 4K restoration technology, I’ve had the pleasure of reconnecting with many of my favorite films from the pre-digital era, while discovering countless classics I...
Continue reading...The Many Identities I Knit
Sitting in front of my computer, writing my fifth blog as has become the usual. Behind me is my record player, I have decided to spin...
Continue reading...Florida Man Streams Hurricane Milton from Boat in Tampa Bay
Lieutenant Dan: the famous live streamer When Hurricane Milton was expected to strike Florida earlier this week, authorities urged residents to evacuate. Tampa mayor Jane Castor...
Continue reading...How will AI effect the future of Music?
The first encounter I had with AI music is listening to an AI Kurt Cobain cover. At first, I found it cool and interesting that a...
Continue reading...Literary and Scientific Content Producers and Providers
The internet, being, yet, another public space, is certainly full of all kinds of contributors ranging from the villain to the benevolent. The choice of scale...
Continue reading...Aesthetics of Curated Lives
For one of the last blogs, I decided to discuss the phenomenon of Pinterest—the heaven of aesthetics. This social media platform was created by Ben Silbermann...
Continue reading...2020s; the Indecisive Fashion Decade
We as humans are prone to nostalgia, especially when it comes to visual aspects of life such as fashion. There is nothing new under the sun,...
Continue reading...My dependency on the Internet or the so-called World Brain
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“Do you allow Cookies?” Immediately I press on the bottom “Yes, Allow all Cookies”. Yesterday I had a discussion with my family about this tracker on...
Continue reading...Fashion in the Digital Age: Labels, Transparency, and Sustainability
Like many other industries, the fashion industry is also experiencing digitization. Representatives of the fashion industry as well as people concerned with climate change currently discussing...
Continue reading...The Increased Capacity to Lie
It’s nothing new for people to lie on the internet. Internet 101 stresses the fact that people lie, and you shouldn’t completely trust anyone you only...
Continue reading...Jodi.org and the Deconstruction of Games
The early internet pioneers of the 1960s and 1970s envisioned a democratic environment of commonly accessible creative tools, where communication channels would enable innovative approaches for...
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