Health
Waking Up Next to You
Written by: Pieter de Jong Almost everyone has a smartphone nowadays. Almost everyone has heard it’s probably a bad idea to sleep while their smartphone is...
Continue reading...Shaun the sheep
Or how online tests decide who I am The Internet makes our lives easier. This fact has turned into an understandable and already primitive point for...
Continue reading...Cyberbullying: Will It Ever Go Away?
With the increase of our time online, the fact that cyberbullying cases have increased should not come as a surprise. But what makes it different than...
Continue reading...Self-care Scrolling II (podcast)
Our thoughts create our reality — where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go. Peter McWilliams Last week I dedicated my post,...
Continue reading...Safe Spaces for… Men
I recently joined a Facebook group where it consists of only females. It’s really quite nice since I get to expand my social circle, and I...
Continue reading...You’re an addict and you don’t even know it
Instagram likes = Cocaine? So this was supposed to be a podcast, but I had a technical fail. This shows how reliant we are on our...
Continue reading...Digitization, seniors and corona
By Marcel Beentjes, student French language and culture Are you that family person who helps your grand parents or your uncle who doesn’t really know how...
Continue reading...Choice: Physical gym or #fitspo?
A lot of women I know prefer to do a group workout session, for example, spinning classes or yoga classes. It’s mostly because those are actually...
Continue reading...Is the Evolution of the Digital World Making Us More Dependent?
– Bhumika Gupta A few days ago, my grandmother came to visit me and I showed her the latest gadget in my collection, an Amazon Alexa...
Continue reading...A story of my life (or How Digital Media affected my daily life)
Steamy first meeting
A Marriage from Hell
Written by: Akif Aliyev Its 9am on a March morning when I wake up and instinctively roll to my side, pick up my phone and begin...
Continue reading...My attempt to change my relationship with the internet and the digital world
Thoughts on Mental Health on the WWW
An estimated 1.1 billion people are affected by mental or substance use disorders worldwide. A critical aspect of these disorders is that the majority have their...
Continue reading...Forced social media use
The benefits and downsides were already spoken of a lot in my previous blog posts. This blog post in not necessarily about a negative or positive...
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...Smartphones? try a little less
More and more scientists say that social media and smartphones are highly addictive. They say that notifications etc. are causing receptors to release dopamine in the...
Continue reading...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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