The good and the bad… and the grey
In my previous blog post I discussed different kinds of hackers, namely white hat and black hat hackers. Although it’d be great to live in a...
Continue reading...Cybertruck
If you’ve been on any social media platform this week, you will most likely have seen the phenomenon that is Elon Musks’ latest product on the...
Continue reading...Digital preservation is important!
When thinking of the term ‘preservation’, the first images in your mind are likely something related to the preservation of flora and fauna, or the preservation...
Continue reading...Caring of the Machines: Gender and Machines
This week’s blog post is a response to a comment left on my blogpost from last week; Fear of the Machines. Which mentioned another way in...
Continue reading...I Have Scraped Our Blogs
Or at least attempted to do so My plan is to scrape all our blogs and run it through Python to see what our most frequent...
Continue reading...Writing history in the age of Big Data
Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through...
Continue reading...Instant Gratification Pt. 2: What about delayed gratification?
Last post I wrote about instant gratification and how digital media continuously feeds our constant desire for gratification whether it be through the quick shot of...
Continue reading...The ‘stories’ of my life
In the last post, I tried to discuss how the users’ FoMO (fear of missing out) effects and reinforces their constant participating of reading or posting...
Continue reading...Connectivity in Death Stranding
Second Life: a second way of learning!
“Mind-reading” technology
Just have a look at the following picture: What do you think is happening here? One might think that the pictures depicted show how an Artificial...
Continue reading...Deepfake technology in the Age of Fake News
Events and information being purposely (mis)presented in misleading or simply malicious ways is no new phenomenon, however since 2016 and Donald Trump, this type of misleading...
Continue reading...Queering Up the Games: Identity Curation
You were right mom
Facebook was launched in 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates at Harvard University. Until 2006, Facebook’s main objective was to connect college students, notably those...
Continue reading...2+2=4 -1=3 Quick Maths…
Cloudy With a Chance of Brains
Waking up dead tired on a dreary Saturday morning is never fun, but even more so in November. The sky is grey and it never seems...
Continue reading...Using the blog as an excuse to express rampant homesickness lol
This weekend, my sister celebrated her 30th birthday in Manresa, Spain, where she has been living for the past 4 years. My whole family (mum, dad,...
Continue reading...What Does Our Facebook Profile Say About Us?
There are an immense amount of social media platforms current, probably we don’t even know about some of them. However, Facebook is probably the one that...
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