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Concerns about (Online) Gambling in the Netherlands

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The TEMU Pandemic

TEMU promises billionaire-style shopping with ultra-low prices and endless products. But behind the flashy ads and gamified shopping lies a darker side – worker exploitation, data privacy concerns, and environmental harm. Is the deal too good to be true? Sometimes, less is truly more.

September 23, 2024 by Vyara Addiction Advertisements Amazon Business Consumerism Corporate Economy Ethics Global developments Internet Privacy Safety Virtual Visionaries 2

Welcome to your first day @ Digital!

Welcome message 💌 Hi! Thank you for interest in joining Digital 😀 At Digital, you can find all kinds of information you could ever think of,...

September 15, 2024 by dalkomcafe Addiction Algorithms Consumption Internet Media Maestros Social Media trend 0

Social media stalking culture

What I mean First of all, to prevent people from getting scared by the title of this blog, let me specify what I mean by stalking....

December 18, 2023 by wvanderavoird Addiction Social Social Media 7

I might be addicted to data

Hello to everyone and thank you for being here in Data Addicts Anonymous, My name is Aylin, I have been addicted to data for the past...

November 1, 2023 by analturing Addiction Health Sports Virtual Visionaries 1

My social media detox – How’d it go?

Starting this course, I have started thinking more and more about my behaviour regarding to digital media, and the effect digital media has on my life....

October 30, 2023 by wvanderavoird Addiction Anxiety Mental Health Social Media 0

Screen Time Superheroes or Little Troublemakers? The Danger of Children’s Digital Adventures

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September 29, 2023 by Amata Addiction Children Consumption Culture Digital Media Mental Health Psychology Smartphones Virtual Visionaries YouTube 1

Making The Day Less Digital: Tackling My Phone Addiction

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September 18, 2023 by MJ Addiction Consumption Self Smartphones 1

How I use my phone day to day!

October 24, 2022 by nikola Addiction Consumption Digital Dynamos Internet Media Mental Health Procrastination Self Smartphones Social Media Technology Web Weavers 7

Genshin impact: Gacha, gambling and gameplay

Anyone with social media access has not been able to avoid the game that’s taken the world by storm over the past two years. I’m not...

October 3, 2022 by leannejvl Addiction Games Web Weavers 5

Online gambling is regulated now, what are the risks?

As of October first 2021, The Netherlands officially regulates the online gambling market. This delayed regulation wasn’t stopping many Dutch people from gambling online though, as...

December 6, 2021 by Emma van Kins Addiction Advertisements Social Media Web Weavers 1

The Tetris Effect

In 1984 in Moscow, Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer, invented the first version of the game Tetris. The goal of the game is simple; rotate and...

November 28, 2021 by vera merks Addiction Games Media Maesters Video games Virtual Voyagers 2

Pipelines and rabbit holes: Falling prey to algorithms

I was fully prepared to make my next blog post about Minecraft – I had a whole idea prepared and everything. But then, while having a...

November 28, 2021 by perihaan Addiction Algorithms Digital Discoverers Facebook Games YouTube 7

Internet Apocalypse: What the Facebook Outage Tells Us About Our Dependency of Social Media

Picture this: Whatsapp messages are not getting through, Instagram feeds are not loading, Wifi routers are being turned on and off again all around the world,...

November 15, 2021 by OGeerman Addiction Facebook Instagram Social Media Twitter Virtual Voyagers 3

Silicon Valley is our modern-day Library of Alexandria; let’s burn it to the ground!

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...

October 4, 2021 by JorisWiebes Addiction Algorithms Art Artificial Intelligence (AI) Business Consumerism Economy Instagram Media Maesters Social Media Web Weavers 0

The Digital Dilemma (Part 1)

In this three-part podcast Andrea Blattler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss various benefits and drawbacks of digital platforms in relation to our own lives ,...