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...
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What Role Do I Play on the Internet?
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...
Continue reading...Where in the World Is Red Note?
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...
Continue reading...Information and Authority: The Illusion of Trust in the Digital Age
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...
Continue reading...We can text with the dead
Sorry if the title sounded a bit horrific. Over the past few weeks, I’ve gained a lot of information related to my interests, but I thought,...
Continue reading...Times when I feel lonely
Half of my semester of study abroad has passed, and I feel that I have become connected to new friends and adjusted to living in Leiden....
Continue reading...Are LLMs our new life coach?
It was when I went on a trip to Paris with my friend. We were talking about life as usual, until she mentioned she had broken...
Continue reading...political memes on social media: information or entertainment?
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,...
Continue reading...Project Showcase: Can ChatGPT help your Mental-Health?
What you are going to find below is a paper I wrote last year for my thematic seminar. In my bachelor, International Studies, you get to...
Continue reading...Being a Boring Person
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...
Continue reading...everyday platforms are political tools: a brief discussion on design, technology, and politics
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...
Continue reading...Emily Let the Night Take Me
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...
Continue reading...+++ Live: Louvre heist +++
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...
Continue reading...Fantasy worlds: where the internet goes to hide and other myths
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...
Continue reading...Dancing with Technology All Day
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...
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Living or Bearing the Life
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...
Continue reading...Podcast: use social media platforms to preserve endangered languages
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...
Continue reading...Podcast essay: The City as a Stage: How Media Shapes Our Travels
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...
Continue reading...Video essay: is using a flip phone in 2025 a good idea? how being offline became part of our scrolling routine
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