Digital Communities: A Pandemic Era Lifeline
In April of this year, Nintendo unveiled Animal Crossing: New Horizons for its highly popular Switch console. A revamped version of its series, Animal Crossing can...
Continue reading...Escaping Lockdown through the World of Video Games
Digital Discussions Episode 6
Episode 6: Election Special! This the sixth episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities....
Continue reading...Fintech
Short for financial technology – appertains to any business that makes use of technology to upgrade or automate financial services and techniques. Fintech firms combine technologies,...
Continue reading...A virtual game from my childhood
Whenever people think about virtual worlds in video games the most common associations are with games such as Second Life or World of Warcraft or maybe...
Continue reading...Would You Watch a Series About Your Own Family?
Mom, people on the Internet don’t like me
My first thought was “I am too old for this”. When I joined TikTok a few months ago my main objective was to try and get...
Continue reading...The reality of CGI influencers
We all know the typical influencer: pictures on the beach, doing yoga at sunset, have a cute dog and the perfect relationship. Good sense of style,...
Continue reading...Digital (Dis)Embodiment
The Nazca Geoglyphs and AI- an Unlikely Match Made in Heaven
The ‘Nazca Lines’ describe a series of geoglyphs spread across the Nazca Desert in Peru. Although an exact date of the creation of these geoglyphs cannot...
Continue reading...The new child of Elon Musk
We all use different modes of transport everyday (such as bicycles, trams, motorbikes, buses or planes). (irrelevant info but fun stuff: do you know what a...
Continue reading...The idea of free speech
Being from the U.S. and as the ideals from my home country have spread across the world, one of the biggest ones is the First Amendment...
Continue reading...How the Dark Web is fueling a drug epidemic
Introduction Since the internet era began in the 1990s, we have used the web to do and explore so many things. Nowadays, we can inform ourselves...
Continue reading...Digital Tools in Fashion
It is pretty clear that the year 2020 was quite chaotic for many industries but for some of them, many doors are opened for experimentation, especially...
Continue reading...Realization of the World Brain: Is it Google?
Yeah why not? After all its a portal in to everything that humans have said, done or thought. But the World Brain that was envisioned by...
Continue reading...Is that Facebook event going to happen?
I first encountered a fake Facebook event about three years ago. It was named Naruto run in front of the Parliament building. A Naruto run is...
Continue reading...Travel Envy
Written by: Pieter de Jong We all watch YouTube video’s, don’t we? I do, that’s for sure. I love watching YouTube video’s and travel video’s by...
Continue reading...____ News Central: A Mini Prediction
As usual, I was scrolling through multiple RELIABLE news sources for inspiration for my blog posts, and I stumbled across this article by Business Insider. President...
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