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,...
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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...
Continue reading...video – The museum experience
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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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Video Essay: Have Tweens Been Erased from the Media
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...
Continue reading...Video Essay: Addicted to the Screen…Until We Finally Look Away
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...
Continue reading...Video Essay: ChatGPT is lukewarm?
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Continue reading...Selling Femininity in Digital Media
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...
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