With AI-generated art becoming more common, it can be unsettling to realise that something we admire wasn’t created by a human. The Hollywood writers’ strikes have highlighted the need for protections around AI in filmmaking, ensuring it doesn’t replace or undermine human creativity. While AI has potential, it still can’t match the emotional depth of human storytelling, but for how long?
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OSINT – a new journalism
These last weeks, we talked a lot about the impact of the digital world on our consumption of information. However, we barely spoked about the way...
Continue reading...All the (Digital) Censorships I Witnessed, Will It Ever Get Better? (Part II)
Last week I started writing about the censorships that I can recall from the time that I lived in Turkey. I expected to be enough material...
Continue reading...What does “the web” look like ? 1/3
A little bit of context : We all know the internet as an intangible entity, a digitized world on its own. However, the internet has a...
Continue reading...All the (Digital) Censorships I Witnessed, Will It Ever Get Better? (Part I)
I am from Turkey, I lived there before moving to the Netherlands. I have never witnessed any other government than the current one. This being said...
Continue reading...The disturbing rise of toxic male role models
In the last 20 or so years the internet and use of social media has made it possible for humanity to become ever more connected, the...
Continue reading...Want to earn? Join the platform
Traditionally, creators such as artists, authors and designers have leaned on large institutions to allow them to publish their work and monetise it. But if you’re sure that your work does have enough interested customers to sell well, these days there are plenty of alternate ways for you to monetise your work.
Continue reading...The Ruling of Social Media Censorship
Social media is ever-present in our lives, we interact with others and perhaps also encounter posts that go against our own views. At least, that is...
Continue reading...Enter the Matrix: An Exploration of Digital Futures (Part 2)
In the second part of this three-part podcast on the future-shaping potential of current trends in technology, Andrea Blätler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss the...
Continue reading...Have you ever heard of the “Nth room incident”? How dark it was!?!
The sexual exploitation incident happened in South Korea in 2019. It revealed the criminal groups were between the ages of 24 and 25. They used fraudulent...
Continue reading...You Can’t Handle the TRUTH: Alternative Facts and Pig S***
With Donald Trump’s creation of his own social media platform, does this issue a landmark of online free speech or is it a hallmark of the...
Continue reading...The (In)Humanity of the Internet
With the amount of time people spend in front of screens, it is not unusual to see some changes within online communities. A somewhat recent change...
Continue reading...You don’t look at the screen, the screen looks at you: The Internet & Social Media in China
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Lyrical Toxicity: The Rap World
In a study conducted by Italian music data company Musixmatch, it was concluded that around 1 in 47 words in rap songs are of profane nature, adding...
Continue reading...Online Fanfiction website: The Underestimated Grassroots literature
Are you a fan of something, whether it is a movie, a historical figure or even a football player? Have you ever read a fanfiction online...
Continue reading...Digital Discussions Episode 1
Pilot Episode This the pilot episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. In this...
Continue reading...Emotions for Likes: It’s Good for Business
Written by: Akif Aliyev The year of 2020 in many senses has been a year of reflection. Not just for me I believe, but for all...
Continue reading...Japanese Government Enacted a Law against Cyberbullying: how to put this to an end?
September 21, 2020 The virus takes lives away, and so does the cyberbullying. In the year of 2020, while the face-to-face contact is lessened, the online...
Continue reading...‘im here to learn so :))))))’ – The exploitation of an AI *Trigger warning for the content of some images*
Some people may have heard of the short-lived existence of Microsoft’s AI chatbot called ‘Tay,’ others may have completely missed the event. The latter would come...
Continue reading...“OK, boomer” Vol. 2: Climate Change Kills
On my way to Leiden I witnessed a conversation that literally made the hairs in my neck stand up, much akin to a pissed off cat....
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