Addiction
Genshin impact: Gacha, gambling and gameplay
Anyone with social media access has not been able to avoid the game that’s taken the world by storm over the past two years. I’m not...
Continue reading...Online gambling is regulated now, what are the risks?
As of October first 2021, The Netherlands officially regulates the online gambling market. This delayed regulation wasn’t stopping many Dutch people from gambling online though, as...
Continue reading...The Tetris Effect
In 1984 in Moscow, Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer, invented the first version of the game Tetris. The goal of the game is simple; rotate and...
Continue reading...Pipelines and rabbit holes: Falling prey to algorithms
I was fully prepared to make my next blog post about Minecraft – I had a whole idea prepared and everything. But then, while having a...
Continue reading...Internet Apocalypse: What the Facebook Outage Tells Us About Our Dependency of Social Media
Picture this: Whatsapp messages are not getting through, Instagram feeds are not loading, Wifi routers are being turned on and off again all around the world,...
Continue reading...Silicon Valley is our modern-day Library of Alexandria; let’s burn it to the ground!
Before I get on a watchlist, I want to clarify that in this blogpost I will not be talking about the physical Silicon Valley; just as...
Continue reading...The Digital Dilemma (Part 1)
In this three-part podcast Andrea Blattler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss various benefits and drawbacks of digital platforms in relation to our own lives ,...
Continue reading...Gaming, how bad is it?
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Coping With Capitalism
Realizing that my addiction to play Egg Inc. is rooted in the simulation of financial success. It was only a few months ago that an advertisement...
Continue reading...Advertising on social media and my tendency to partake in ‘retail therapy’
I used to be semi-addicted to online shopping. Spending multiple hours a day on apps or websites looking at things I wanted to buy and buying...
Continue reading...Escaping Lockdown through the World of Video Games
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Creative Workouts
Now that the weather is cooler, I take my runs outdoor (despite being from a warm-climate country, I absolutely DESPISE running outdoors in warm weather). Some...
Continue reading...Waking Up Next to You
Written by: Pieter de Jong Almost everyone has a smartphone nowadays. Almost everyone has heard it’s probably a bad idea to sleep while their smartphone is...
Continue reading...Is the Evolution of the Digital World Making Us More Dependent?
– Bhumika Gupta A few days ago, my grandmother came to visit me and I showed her the latest gadget in my collection, an Amazon Alexa...
Continue reading...A story of my life (or How Digital Media affected my daily life)
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My attempt to change my relationship with the internet and the digital world
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Forced social media use
The benefits and downsides were already spoken of a lot in my previous blog posts. This blog post in not necessarily about a negative or positive...
Continue reading...You’ll close your eyes to the pictures, the memories and eventually the facts
Since the existence of image-based journalism and the overall rise in various media formats, we have become oversaturated with images. This in itself does not have...
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