Before I get on a watchlist, I want to clarify that in this blogpost I will not be talking about the physical Silicon Valley; just as...
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Procrastination as a business model
Social media, netwerkmarketing and the gender specifics of Multi-Level Marketing
Multi-Level Marketing, or MLMs, are business enterprises in which participants seek not only to sell products to friends, family, and social media contacts, but also to...
Continue reading...Digital Discussions Episode 11
Episode 11: Christmas Special! This the eleventh episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, very overdue edition, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities,...
Continue reading...Fake Reviews in e-commerce
Inspired by “Is it My Opinion?”, “The Ease of Online Shopping” – blogs from fellow students – and a New York Times article, I have decided...
Continue reading...Ambient Lighting and Media Consumption
Media consumption is, undoubtedly, one of the most important elements in digital media. It refers to activities where one interacts with new media, books, television, radio...
Continue reading...Social Media is a marketplace, and don’t you dare forget about it!
The usage of social media has been a prevalent phenomenon since the early internet days. However, since the early use in the noughties, a lot has...
Continue reading...The Battle of the Tech Giants: Illusions of Innovation, Parallel Structures and Capitalism
Every day more than 4,000 new apps are released. Google Play´s monthly new releases exceed 100,000 each month and Apple´s App Store is not far behind....
Continue reading...Will “Shopping Streets” survive COVID-19?
UK’s High Streets, Kalvestraat in Amsterdam, Champs-Elysees in Paris, Orchard Road in Singapore… I can hardly think of a big city without a main shopping street....
Continue reading...Black Friday: Shop ‘Till You Drop?
Fintech
Short for financial technology – appertains to any business that makes use of technology to upgrade or automate financial services and techniques. Fintech firms combine technologies,...
Continue reading...The Age of Business on Instagram
We all are familiar with Instagram and using it to post our life’s highlights to the quirky pictures or scroll through memes and cat pics. But...
Continue reading...The Ease of Online Shopping
Have you ever thought about how technology has made our lives so much easier and faster? I am talking about Online Shopping. We can order almost...
Continue reading...Manufacturers vs the “Right to Repair”
We Can’t Have Sh!t: Why Ethical Consumption is Borderline Impossible
Written by: Akif Aliyev “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?...
Continue reading...Substituting Global Business Meetings with Online Meetings?
For the past few months, I’ve come across numerous articles about how the pandemic has given a rise to remote working. Besides having to work remotely...
Continue reading...You’ll close your eyes to the pictures, the memories and eventually the facts
Since the existence of image-based journalism and the overall rise in various media formats, we have become oversaturated with images. This in itself does not have...
Continue reading...Microtransactions, Huge Prices
Intuitive Eating (of Social Media Feeds)
The Context Social media platforms bring about so many opportunities for enhanced global connection and access, and yet I often feel very passive on these platforms....
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