For some reason, indie horror games seem to be really good at catching the internet’s attention. Look at the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise, which is...
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Niantic’s AR antics: Pokémon GO and Pikmin Bloom
In trying to decide what to write about this week, my eyes fell over the newly released game from Niantic and Nintendo, Pikmin Bloom. While the...
Continue reading...Why Losing Phone Signal in Central Berlin Proved the Perfect Break From Digital Reliance
How many of us have actually stopped to think about the weirdly mundane but simultaneously ‘supernatural’ existence of the Phone in our daily lives. Perpetually reliant...
Continue reading...Is the whole world spying on us?
Privacy is becoming a more pressing issue by the day. At the time of writing this, the whole world has its eyes on China and its...
Continue reading...Monetisation, Creativity, and Content
Profit-Shaped Content Around 2016, something interesting started happening on YouTube. Content creators who had once churned out shorter, sub-10 minute videos were now regularly uploading 20-,...
Continue reading...Mastering Empathy through Gameplay: Toby Fox’s Undertale
Were you on Tumblr in the period around 2015-2017? Have you been reading on Twitter in the past week or two? Are you even a little...
Continue reading...From Houseparty to Clubhouse: How I Have Lost Faith in Meaningful Social Network Designs
The sheer plethora of social media communication platforms that are launched every year continues to amaze me. When you thought you had nailed the perfect UX/UI...
Continue reading...How the Digital brings us closer to each other, but sometimes a bit too close
The Digital brings us closer to each other, there is no doubt about that. Distances that used to be unbridgeable are now crossed in the blink...
Continue reading...Social Media, Capitalism and Performance: ranting about living in a post-digital age
As I was philosophising about what topic to talk about in this week’s blog post, I thought about the people I looked up to in the...
Continue reading...My First Encounter with a Digital Community
League of Legends: The Worst and The Best in one place Online communities can be described the best as groups of people gathering in digital areas....
Continue reading...Blue check marks
In the digital age we are becoming more and more available because the internet connects us all. Today many people use instant messenger apps such as...
Continue reading...Lyrical Toxicity: The Rap World
In a study conducted by Italian music data company Musixmatch, it was concluded that around 1 in 47 words in rap songs are of profane nature, adding...
Continue reading...Creative Workouts
Now that the weather is cooler, I take my runs outdoor (despite being from a warm-climate country, I absolutely DESPISE running outdoors in warm weather). Some...
Continue reading...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...Shaun the sheep
Or how online tests decide who I am The Internet makes our lives easier. This fact has turned into an understandable and already primitive point for...
Continue reading...Cyberbullying: Will It Ever Go Away?
With the increase of our time online, the fact that cyberbullying cases have increased should not come as a surprise. But what makes it different than...
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