Digital Dynamos

As of early 2026, OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT has 700 million weekly active users. People usually treat AI as a tool, as if it merely...

Last month, a set of game tutorial videos I uploaded seven years ago received a new comment. It said, “You were part of my childhood. When...

Because of the Great Firewall of China, the Chinese internet has developed into a separate ecosystem that is structurally different from much of the rest of...

My grandfather enjoys sharing social media articles with our family chat group. These articles typically have titles such as “Shocking,” “Breaking News,” or “Latest Update.” Most...

Memes are nothing new in the digital world. Highly shareable, they quickly gain traction and reach a large number of individuals. When public figures make gaffes,...

It is New Year again! With all the red-and-white decorations and Mariah Carey singing All I Want for Christmas Is You everywhere, it’s hard not to notice that...

Proxy protesting: a concept I wasn’t familiar with. Last month I went to the exhibition Design and Disability at the V&A Museum in London. It was...

Who was I before having a smartphone? When I once asked my mother this question, she spent days searching through our house and eventually found boxes...

If you’d ask me, the first (and probably only) source, via which people of my generation are exposed to global headlines and news, are social media...

I must admit that, from a technical point of view, “the internet” often still is a great mystery to me. While the use of media that...

Who am I without Apple Watch? This blog is an incarnation of everyday annoyance: once I cycled 25 minutes to the tennis courts, only to discover...

Where is home? I was invited to my friend’s house recently. The moment I opened the door, my first feeling was fascination — strange as it...

What keeps a language alive in the age of TikTok?In this podcast, we explore what it means for a language to be endangered and discuss how...

In this podcast, I talk about how the image of a city we see in movies and on social media can be very different from what...