Like many others, I find myself captivated by colorized historical photos and videos. They bring history closer, revealing details that black-and-white images obscure, making the past...
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The impact of Digital Media: a contemporary view on history
Abstract: This essay aims to explore the impact of digital media on the perception of history, focusing on its effects on historical understanding, memory, and identity....
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I am not exactly a humanities student. I am following this course because it is part of the Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence minor. Normally I...
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...
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Digital Media as a stage filled with nothing but actors
All the world’s a stage’’ You might have heard that quote before, it comes from one of Shakespear’s plays, As You Like It, but what does...
Continue reading...Cyborgs are among us
‘’Implanting microchips directly into your brain is a scientific trope’’ well yes, but actually no. Yes, as in it is definitely not a technology that is...
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AI art generators are far from being unknown in this day and age, yet the place they are attributed in society is still up for debate....
Continue reading...The metaverse: what? why?
The progress of technology is ever present and ever increasing in rapidity, and people are always looking at what will be the next big technological revolution....
Continue reading...Memes, memes everywhere
Young or old, internet adept or average enjoyer, we have all been confronted with what seems to define internet culture in a nutshell: memes. In fact,...
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According to google, a cyborg is a ‘’fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the...
Continue reading...Amazon: the perfect matchmaker
I’ll make a bold claim and say that everybody knows what amazon is and how to use it. I’ll make another bold claim and say that...
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Would you like to be a blob? Now if your answer is already yes, I am thoroughly curious as to why, but in the highly likely...
Continue reading...The AI Poet
This week, I encountered a post on my timeline that really caught my interest. Essentially, the post is a poem that was written by an AI....
Continue reading...Digital Media, what on earth does it mean?
What’s this about? I recently enrolled in the course ‘Digital media, culture and society’ and, since I am a very well prepared student who does research...
Continue reading...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...Lockdown and Christmas: How I Combat the Loneliness
It’s December, Sinterklaas has long since arrived back in Spain, the temperatures outside are dipping into the negatives, and everywhere you look you see fairy lights...
Continue reading...My digital journey
Where did I come from and where will I go? It wasn’t until I went to high school that I got my first smartphone and I...
Continue reading...The Furry Community: One of The Most Misrepresented and Misunderstood Online Communities
Last week, in my blog about VRChat, I wrote towards the end that I am a furry. To some people, that term might not ring a...
Continue reading...VRChat: The Platform Metaverse Wishes It Was
Last week in class we discussed Metaverse, Meta’s new big plan for an online social space. VR is the future of technology, and Metaverse intends to...
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