The transparency movement has finally come of age. Power has shifted to the users. Their trust has to be earned in different ways now says Jay...
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If you’ve read some of my blogs, you probably figured I’m intrigued by closed societies, online groups of dissidents, that kind of thing. For this course...
Continue reading...Humanity through VR
“It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I’ve never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people’s perception of...
Continue reading...Cultivation Theory
In the previous blog, I have written a post about what Agenda Setting is, and how the traditional Agenda Setting theory has changed with the...
Continue reading...Human emotions in virtual worlds
“How can we then say that something exists and at the same time is not real?” (Brey, 2014) Virtual enviroments are really powerful. Through them, humans can...
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Genealogy or family history is a popular pastime in Europe and still even more in the USA. Something we Westerners tend to forget is that many...
Continue reading...Who is Robert Galbraith?
It is presumable that some of you already know the answer to the above question. But first let me explain, at least for the ignorant among...
Continue reading...Pokémon Go, our virtual playground
“Playgrounds are everywhere once you start looking.” I’m sure everyone here has played (or at least heard of) Pokémon Go, the mobile game that took the...
Continue reading...A meme a day keeps the doctor away
“An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.” This definition...
Continue reading...A wave of digital icons
“By the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the digital image […] became a powerful tool for simulating reality that will deceive in future...
Continue reading...Pinocchio and his digital translation
‘Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.’ This was just the beginning of the fairytale of Pinocchio, an animated wooden marionette dreaming of...
Continue reading...Picture Perfect?
Nothing is what it seems. Not only magicians and politicians are experts at hiding the truth, arguably everyone participating on social media is some kind of...
Continue reading...Doomed to fail?
This week I am going to predict something. When I wrote about Tamagotchis a few weeks back I talked about how companies utilize people’s feelings of...
Continue reading...Power of Visual Metaphor
I have prepared two claims. First regarding gender roles: gender should not choose roles, and second regarding working conditions: women must work hard to reach equality...
Continue reading...A sense of community in the jungle
“While a mosaic respects the diversity of the elements of which it is made up, it brings them together in an organic unity greater than the sum of its parts.”...
Continue reading...YouTube; A Career Platform?
During the process of writing blogs I realized that there is so much that we take for granted nowadays. Several pieces of digital structure have been...
Continue reading...When Life Gives You Limes…
Allow me to take you back to the year 2000. The internet was just breaching into popularity and I was 2 years old at that time....
Continue reading...Blackwashing/whitewashing
No, this title is not referring to your laundry. It does refer to when people for instance use a white person to represent a black person...
Continue reading...Digital Media and Nuance
The time I spent on Facebook was mainly used to look at recipe GIFS and memes. The Facebook algorithm however infered I was very fond of...
Continue reading...Don’t tell me, GIF me!
The language of digital communication is changing over time, especially in this last decade, in which many “accessories” have been created so as to make digital...
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