Culture
Kidfluencers: The New Generation of Child Stars
One thing I hate to see on my timeline is content made by or centred around kids. Mommy influencers, “kidfluencers” and videos of children’s vulnerable moments,...
Continue reading...A Digital Day: Navigating the Balance Between Connection and Overload
Writing about spending a day in the digital world doesn’t feel particularly challenging – I suppose the reason is that I can’t remember the last day...
Continue reading...Artificial poems for Sinterklaas: Are they any good?
Podcast: What Happens After pop Culture Enters the Realm of Films?
Welcome to my podcast! I discuss ‘an edit’ as a part of popular culture and explain how does it changes the way that people consume films...
Continue reading...The online persona explored
Vintage.com: How the Internet digitised one of fashion’s most analogue traditions
Like most others with similar interests, second-hand clothing was my ticket into the fascinating world of fashion and clothes. I could pinpoint the places, the feel,...
Continue reading...The Collective Memory of Now: How our Digital presence has shaped what, why and how we remember.
The cultural link made between individualism and memory has been a consistent factor in the history of human thought. Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke even hypothesised that...
Continue reading...James Charles v Colleen Ballinger, how a different approach to an apology changed their careers.
Screen Time Superheroes or Little Troublemakers? The Danger of Children’s Digital Adventures
The disturbing rise of toxic male role models
In the last 20 or so years the internet and use of social media has made it possible for humanity to become ever more connected, the...
Continue reading...Remembering the ‘tower computers’ of yesteryear
Exploring Wilderness in Minecraft
Minecraft is the most popular video game to this day. One of its hallmarks is its unbound territory that is free to explore by the player...
Continue reading...Why we shouldn’t presume that the web is flat
Toward a different perspective on web-based objects
Introduction What are web-based objects, or what might they be? Since objects are culturally constituted, it is interesting to ask how the increasingly digital and internet-oriented...
Continue reading...Digital Scholarship and Cultural Heritage: Digital Benin
During the last decades, and especially the last couple of years, debates about the restitution of cultural heritage have gained more and more public interest, forcing...
Continue reading...LGBT identities in League of Legends
It’s been a big year for the League of Legends community, the most recent big event being DRX winning the World’s Championship against the undefeated T1....
Continue reading...The chained (networked) society
My role as an online prosumer of K-Pop and an offline walking magnet of NCT fans
My offline role “I am currently a third-year student doing a minor in Digital Humanities at Leiden University.” This is definitely how I introduce myself to...
Continue reading...The Most Popular Plane on TikTok & Other Digital Marketing Stories
Since you are supposed to start your blog with a catchy opening, let’s begin with some very engaging statistics. According to a report updated in August...
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