“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great...
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Does Spotify still have any competitors?
When you want to listen to music, your first instinct is to go to Spotify. That’s why it’s the largest company in the music industry and...
Continue reading...So, where in the World are the Board Games?
I remember as a kid, board games were one of the most wanted Christmas gifts for my sister and me. We used to spend hours playing...
Continue reading...What is Social Media’s role in the Political World?
Where in the world is [insert digital medium of your choice here]? I struggled over how to interpret this question for many days. Do I read...
Continue reading...The performative character of family photos in a digital age. Sharing childhood memories online.
Recently I flipped through a photo album put together by my parents about my first few years. The album was pulled out to show my boyfriend....
Continue reading...Why I’m Still Grateful I Learned Maps the Old-School Way
Getting Lost as a Kid When I was eight or nine years old, I was in scouts and trying to figure out how to cross the...
Continue reading...Social media is a very complicated performance
Recently I’ve been thinking about how to organise my social media life. What to post, where to post, how to post. This led me reflect about...
Continue reading...Is it Necessary to Watch the News, and Should We Trust What We See?
A few weeks ago, I watched the news about a murder case in Tokyo. Since then, I have been haunted by nightmares- running away from a...
Continue reading...The EU Thinks You’re a Pedofile
The scheming EU Commission bureaucrats in Brussels have come up with a new disgusting scheme to mass surveil us. They want to introduce something called “Chat...
Continue reading...Embracing Open-Source Software, and a Vision for the Future…
The once biggest YouTuber, Pewdiepie, relatively recently uploaded a video explaining his switch from Windows to Linux. I was quickly amazed at the amount of customisations...
Continue reading...Could TikTok replace Google?
I google. In short that would answer the question ‘how do you find information and knowledge on digital technologies and media?’ However, the manner in which...
Continue reading...Truth engines? How information finds us in the digital age.
It is a sign of our time – an era often referred to as the “information age” (Galloway, 111) – that media is generally understood as...
Continue reading...Should Smartphone Use be Restricted by Authorities?
In last week’s class discussion, it was interesting to hear my classmates’ experiences with smartphone and other digital device restrictions in their early childhoods. Since we...
Continue reading...before instagram there were oil portraits
This weekend I did a solo day trip to Antwerp and had a blast at the KSMKA museum. Walking through the rooms, I ended up in...
Continue reading...Scrolling vs. Learning : how I get informed online
For a long time, I used to convince myself that spending hours on TikTok and X was somehow necessary because it was the only way to...
Continue reading...The Heart of a Broken Story
I used to dream a lot, and spent most of my time in books before high school. Sometimes I bring my own books, sometimes I just...
Continue reading...How academic pressure manipulated me into using AI
ChatGPT was released shortly after I finished high school. So my first meeting with AI in an educational setting was at university. My two first semesters...
Continue reading...Searching Smarter: Staying Critical in a Digital World
High School and the Rise of Social Media I used Google for the first time when I was in elementary school. I still remember sitting in...
Continue reading...Information or/and Entertainment?
During high school, our teachers were telling us to be aware of the sources we used online when we were searching for information. In university, this...
Continue reading...I Rushed Through the IELTS,Chased by Social Media
“The internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.” Pariser, E. (2011). The filter bubble:...
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