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Influences of Digital Media on Artists
The new road of academics: TV series
* Spoiler warning for The Good Place* A couple of nights ago I finally got the time to watch the new episodes of The Good Place....
Continue reading...I know you, you don’t know me
We have all heard someone say that they are “stalking” someone else, while referring to the action of looking up someone on google or on social...
Continue reading...The Magic of Subtitles
When I first came to the Netherlands, I was afraid that I won’t be able to communicate with the locals as I only speak very few...
Continue reading...Assistive Technologies on Smartphones
Video games, gamers and the Revolution of our Age
Background information Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher based in California, most widely known for the Warcraft and Diablo series. Tencent is...
Continue reading...Facial Weaponization Suite
Today, I am going to introduce to you one art project that I think pretty impressive. As you can see the title, the name of the...
Continue reading...Winning friends and influencing people
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...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
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...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...
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