A few weeks ago, I had to write a paper about a major challenge in global mental health and one of the discussions that came up...
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Do I really want to buy these jeans or did the girl on Pinterest just look very good in them?
Social media makes it hard to tell if we genuinely like something or if we’re just chasing the latest trend. Fast fashion thrives on this cycle, constantly pushing new styles that we feel pressured to buy. The result? A closet full of clothes we don’t truly connect with, all while contributing to overconsumption and environmental harm.
Continue reading...Where in the world it the FBI agent on the other side of my phone?
Do you ever feel like there’s a little FBI agent on the other side of your phone? Or that someone’s watching you? What are the odds...
Continue reading...Welcome to your first day @ Digital!
Welcome message 💌 Hi! Thank you for interest in joining Digital 😀 At Digital, you can find all kinds of information you could ever think of,...
Continue reading...Get yourself out of the Filter Bubble
My scrolling activity looks very similar each day. I open Instagram with muscle memory, even though it is in a separate folder,(The goal was to have...
Continue reading...An Age of (Re)discovery: ‘Duvet’ by bôa and how TikTok has transformed the way we consume music.
If you’ve used TikTok at any point over the past six months, you’ve most likely heard this song. Whether it be the chorus, the first thirty...
Continue reading...Can computers cry?
With the last lecture in mind, I felt inspired to go more in depth about the questions that were asked in the last lecture. “Are computers...
Continue reading...Podcast — TikTok the new Google?
Hi and welcome to this solo podcast by me Isabel your host! After reading the article written by Kalley Huang “For Gen Z, TikTok IS the...
Continue reading...Voyage of Digitality & the Internet: Podcast 02
Introduction Welcome to the Voyage of Digitality & the Internet. In the second episode, Ljubiša Metikoš, PhD legal researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR)...
Continue reading...Podcast – Coded Bias: AI in Power
In this podcast, we (Mehak, Isabel, and Lara) talk about the documentary “Coded Bias,” directed by Shalini Kantayya. The documentary discusses how biased the algorithms used...
Continue reading...He works, but she is naked — gender bias in translation
Last week, I came across a post which highlights one of the issues of training AI with massive data sets and little oversight. Discussed is a...
Continue reading...Clip-who? Looking back on Microsoft’s best worst Office Assistant
Spurred by this week’s prompt being “what is an early memory of digital technology”, I took a deep dive in my childhood. Suddenly I remembered an...
Continue reading...Outside the Bubble: Social media usage in Palestina
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Is AI Art Art? Well, It’s In The Name, Isn’t It?
If you have any artist friends, chances are they’ve recently mentioned mentioned AI-generated art. Chances also are that they’re concerned about it. Is AI-generated art really art? What future do human artists have, if algorithms can generate images that win in art competitions?
Continue reading...Tiktok: the necessary evil for GenZ
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How modern media can change your reality
Have you ever been scrolling through YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Twitter or any other kind of media platform and thought to yourself: “How did I end up...
Continue reading...The New Age of Chess: Harnessing the Power of Computers in a Digital Age
This blog was inspired by the Week 10 “Are Computers Having Fun?” chess game that was suggested. I am not a good chess player but I...
Continue reading...Enter the Matrix: An Exploration of Digital Futures (Part 2)
In the second part of this three-part podcast on the future-shaping potential of current trends in technology, Andrea Blätler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss the...
Continue reading...AI Art and thispersondoesnotexist
A conversation with Alessia (a.zanon) and Anna (anna.barbara) In this video we discuss Ai generated photographs, images and art, in particular the website called thispersondoesnotexist. We...
Continue reading...They are not real! Open your eyes!
Everyone believes it is true! 2 Korean virtual internet influencers are synthesized by AI technology, sharing daily wearing, life, and singing. With the rapid development of...
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