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
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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...My Brother is a Cyborg
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Digital Discussions Episode 9
Episode 9: Anime Culture and its International Influence This the ninth episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital,...
Continue reading...A boy is born on a spaceship.
“There’s no music on the spaceship and he lives there alone surrounded by machines. One day the boy stumbles upon a pirate radio station and discovers...
Continue reading...Does thou bleed? The bleed within roleplaying online and offline.
Since last year, I’m playing the game Dungeons and Dragons with a friend group weekly on Thursdays. Of course, the whole rona thing kinda happened and...
Continue reading...(4) “Think Differently”: The IT Minister who had never used a computer could have been the best IT Minister ever?
In my three previous blogs so far, I have featured the “strange mix” of digital and analogue culture in Japan, digital culture’s “neutral” nature, and the...
Continue reading...(3) Audrey Tang: Digital and Culture rather than Digital Culture
At the beginning of this corona crisis, a young Digital Minister of Taiwan drew attention from all over the world. Her name is Audrey Tang: the...
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