Digital Dynamos

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...

In this video essay, I discuss the recent loss in media aimed at tweens, and what the dangers of this could be.Have Tweens Been Erased from...

Link: https://youtu.be/baMmT7LxErI Description: What do you do first thing in the morning? Our phones are the first thing we touch when we wake up and the...

This video is co-edited by Xinyu Yao and Ge Shi. Description In this video essay, we use perfume advertisements as our subject of study, focusing on how...

https://youtu.be/wjeGcjdBlxs This video is co-edited by Ge Shi and Xinyu Yao. Description: In this video essay, we use perfume advertisements as our subject of study, focusing on...

How does social media shape, dictate and change our notion of style? https://video.leidenuniv.nl/media/t/1_omoa8q7u A videoessay by Franziska Rudert, created for the seminar Digital Media at Leiden University, November...

https://youtu.be/07n65eAf0AM In this video essay, I’m going to discuss the development in the use of digital technology in the Italian education system. I’m going to talk...

Together with my co-host Florine, I recorded a podcast about the world of VR. We thought this was an interesting topic to discuss because there are...

Lately I feel like FOMO, fear of missing out, has started to take over. The need to be constantly active, going everywhere, seeing everyone… it has...

When I was a child, I wanted to be a musician, an astronaut, or maybe even both at the same time. I thought about doing all...

Let’s face it, most of us need to find a job after university. This is my last semester, and after it, I’ll have a degree in...

I always listen to music whenever I am, when I am taking a bath, walking, before and after the classes, or before going to bed. The...