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Welcome message 💌 Hi! Thank you for interest in joining Digital 😀 At Digital, you can find all kinds of information you could ever think of,...
Continue reading...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....
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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....
Continue reading...Screen Time Superheroes or Little Troublemakers? The Danger of Children’s Digital Adventures
Making The Day Less Digital: Tackling My Phone Addiction
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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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,...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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 ,...
Continue reading...Gaming, how bad is it?
Coping With Capitalism
Realizing that my addiction to play Egg Inc. is rooted in the simulation of financial success. It was only a few months ago that an advertisement...
Continue reading...Advertising on social media and my tendency to partake in ‘retail therapy’
I used to be semi-addicted to online shopping. Spending multiple hours a day on apps or websites looking at things I wanted to buy and buying...
Continue reading...Escaping Lockdown through the World of Video Games
Creative Workouts
Now that the weather is cooler, I take my runs outdoor (despite being from a warm-climate country, I absolutely DESPISE running outdoors in warm weather). Some...
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