When last week we were talking about ‘The Self Online’ I started thinking about how we, as humans, are taught how to present ourselves and how...
Continue reading...Has music become too easily accessible?
Let me start this off by saying that I am not trying to be classist or snobbish with this blog post; I believe music is for...
Continue reading...The environmental cost of the internet
Past weekend I had a discussion with my father about the climate march of the preceding Friday, I was talking about how the size of the...
Continue reading...The Blurred Lines Between Anonymity and Role-Playing
I want to analyze the role of anonymity in one’s humanity. The digital world has made it extremely easy to go undercover, to a certain extent....
Continue reading...I have traveled the world
Social Media and High (?) Fashion
It is needless to list the perks of digital media. We are living in a day and age where we have fast access to information, gadgets...
Continue reading...Online personality cults
Personal Mobile Coach
Automation and the FUTUUUUUURE
Rather than structure my blog entry as a fun yet academic article, I want to make this entry more of a story meets an infinite amount...
Continue reading...Orange
With this sudden appearance of cold and wet autumn weather, a natural occurrence comes back into our lives. I call this the ‘I’d-really-rather-not-go-outside-into-the-cold-and-the-rain’ phenomenon. A perfectly...
Continue reading...Research Booster
In the last weeks, I tried to give you some insides in how the digital applies to linguistics in daily life and how all of us...
Continue reading...Do we make social media, or does it make us?
“According to this {the structuralist} perspective, people don’t ‘think or speak ideas’ or make meanings. In fact, the very idea of a ‘free subject’ is, ironically,...
Continue reading...A millennial’s task
One of the most tedious remarks made by the older folks when it comes to millennials is that “we have everything at our fingertips, so we...
Continue reading...The Video Game Industry, how controversial
With extraordinarily large profits and an ever growing demand, the video game industry is one of the biggest contributors to the economy worldwide. For now, it...
Continue reading...The Past Is Doomed to Recur…
During middle school, my history teacher used to say ‘The past is doomed to recur!’ all the time. Maybe that was only the case for Turkey...
Continue reading...Fake News
At a global workshop on disinformation that started in Taiwan, Taipei on September 10, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scott Busby, who led the US delegation...
Continue reading...Lads, It’s…
Disclaimer: This post was written before the Brighton-Tottenham game, and therefore doesn’t cover that result or Lloris’ injury; the latter of which is, in my opinion,...
Continue reading...My visit to Stroom Den Haag
Just a Sec
Time flies by, doesn’t it? One moment it is only nine ‘o clock in the morning, so you decide to watch all the new episodes that...
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