How does one talk about looking for drugs in a forest?
In a previous article, I discussed the curious entanglement between the Hydra online drug marketplace and post-soviet urban planning. This peculiar business model requires not only...
Continue reading...QWERTY but write it in Arabic
2020 has been a year marked by conversations about racism and colonialism taking their rightful place in the mainstream. So the convergence of conversations about racism...
Continue reading...The power of sound
Our lives keep getting busier and busier every year. We love to rush things, increase our standards and receive better results in a shorter period of...
Continue reading...Decentralization and Wikileaks: Opportunities and Challenges for Traditional News Platforms
Wikileaks has become famous through publishing secret information. With its new and radical approach to the freedom of information, Wikileaks distinguishes itself from classical news organizations,...
Continue reading...Privacy invading Surveillance Techniques: Immediate Ways to Evade Facial Recognition
Facial recognition software is one of the most hotly debated technological advancements of our time. The possibilities of misuse brought many companies to put the development...
Continue reading...The Work of Art in the Age of Digitalization
It is the year 2013. I am 15 years old. I tell my friend the band My Chemical Romance has split up. She runs out of...
Continue reading...Tools to understand cyborgs
In this video the notion of what it means to be a human and what it means to be a cyborg is explored through the analysis...
Continue reading...Order desk: digital shop in shop
By: Marcel Beentjes My last podcast for this course is about order desks that are used in GAMMA shops since a few years and that can...
Continue reading...AI and my future career
While I was wondering what I should write about in my last blog, I realized how much I actually enjoyed writing. As I am considering doing...
Continue reading...Loveable Robot Companions and AI Ethics
It’s a very popular sci-fi trope, a cutesy robot that the viewer develops warm feelings for as the machine proves itself to be capable of acting...
Continue reading...Digital socializing
By Marcel Beentjes In this podcast I will talk about digital socializing in times of the corona virus because I thought this is one of the...
Continue reading...Decentralized social media: Yay or Nay?
As the anti-big tech sentiment pivoted in recent years, ensues efforts to curb their reigning influence and power. In late October this year, on top of...
Continue reading...Pandemic Albums
What’s up with them, anyway? It is often said that from suffering and hardship, amazing art arises. It’s an argument that can lead to the flawed...
Continue reading...Digital Art: Expression Beyond Capability
“Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries…” – Neville Brody Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to visit NXT Museum in Amsterdam,...
Continue reading...Fake Reviews in e-commerce
Inspired by “Is it My Opinion?”, “The Ease of Online Shopping” – blogs from fellow students – and a New York Times article, I have decided...
Continue reading...Technology is changing the labor market faster than ever
Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content.
Continue reading...
Manufacturers vs the “Right to Repair” – Part II
Almost two and a half months ago I wrote a blog about the “right to repair”, how manufacturers have fiercely resisted changes that enable easier repairability...
Continue reading...[VIDEO] The Fascinating Rise of VTubers
Ever since early 2020 one of my best friends has become obsessed with VTubers. Every single morning I would wake up to a max. of 7...
Continue reading...
Recent Comments