“What is your TikTok account?” This question appeared much more often throughout my life than “Do you have TikTok?”. Being a 19-year-old girl in the year...
Continue reading...Algorithms
Oh, the places you’ll go!
Whether it was boredom, intrigue, or peer pressure, many people joined TikTok during the near-global lockdown. No matter the reason why, every single one went on...
Continue reading...Forever by Mitch McGlocklin, a review
About a month ago, I attended the Leiden Short Film festival and went to see all the finalists for the student competition. One which really stood...
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 (In)Humanity of the Internet
With the amount of time people spend in front of screens, it is not unusual to see some changes within online communities. A somewhat recent change...
Continue reading...Help! I am getting fewer likes online: Instagram and algorithm
You have probably heard this before: social media uses algorithm to keep track of your behaviour and use this to predict what you would like to...
Continue reading...Paying for promotion: How do targeted ads work?
It`s almost scary: You research the internet to see what vacuum cleaner to buy, and the next day all the advertisements you see are about different...
Continue reading...Hey there! Whatsapp is using me
When I am bored, I sometimes find myself scrolling down the list of my Whatsapp contacts while looking at new profile pictures and statuses. A while...
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...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...Fintech
Short for financial technology – appertains to any business that makes use of technology to upgrade or automate financial services and techniques. Fintech firms combine technologies,...
Continue reading...Recruitment Algorithms: An Insightful Encounter
Robopsychology
I remember watching “I,Robot” as a kid, and thought about how absolutely impossible it would be for a robot to ever have emotions (got that skepticism...
Continue reading...With great freedom comes great inconveniences…
In this podcast, Aleksa and I discuss how we, as a society, live in a panopticon where governments are struggling to gain knowledge on its citizens, while global...
Continue reading...Emotions for Likes: It’s Good for Business
Written by: Akif Aliyev The year of 2020 in many senses has been a year of reflection. Not just for me I believe, but for all...
Continue reading...Podcast: #DigitalArtists with Sonja Steiner
This is a conversation between two artists: the academically-taught artist Sonja Steiner and self-taught digital artist Kristina Kovalenko about the effect of the digital revolution on...
Continue reading...Podcast: #DigitalOptimists with Stefan Buijsman (Artificial Intelligence Art Episode)
Stefan and I are discussing whether Artificial Intelligence can be considered a threat to artists and the art world, deep fakes and whether they will be...
Continue reading...‘im here to learn so :))))))’ – The exploitation of an AI *Trigger warning for the content of some images*
Some people may have heard of the short-lived existence of Microsoft’s AI chatbot called ‘Tay,’ others may have completely missed the event. The latter would come...
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