Since the People’s Republic of China announced in 2014 that they will launch a new system that is supposed to make sure it’s citizens and corporations...
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Remembrance
As a child, we’ve all looked up at the night sky, trying to count the stars. But even that tiny piece of sky was so filled...
Continue reading...Releasing the iPhone 11, an admirable pursuit?
For the past decade, the role of Apple in the digital world has grown tremendously, becoming an industry that is both leading and constantly changing the...
Continue reading...Digital photo manipulation
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Although academics should prefer to read a thousand words above just looking at an image to draw conclusions, there...
Continue reading...”After all, tomorrow is another day.”
The last blog already. And what better way to start it then with a quote from Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind? For this last blog...
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So, all these weeks I have been blogging about all these different ways to make history fun and more modern using digital means. Today I would...
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Games with historic themes have been popular since the early beginnings. Popular historic game titles are Command & Conquer, Rome: Total War and Age of Empires....
Continue reading...Archiving the digital
Not so very long ago most computer users printed everything. They held onto their paper texts, probably also because the average pre-millennium (Windows) computer was quite...
Continue reading...Something lost. . .
Usually I write this really upbeat blog, but today will be different. So prepare yourself for a change of pace. Normally I talk about all the...
Continue reading...Everything Must Come to an End?
Does everything have to come to an end? According to Nelly Furtado, ‘all good things come to an end’. But how right is she? Is there...
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In the previous blog, I have written a post about what Agenda Setting is, and how the traditional Agenda Setting theory has changed with the...
Continue reading...Human emotions in virtual worlds
“How can we then say that something exists and at the same time is not real?” (Brey, 2014) Virtual enviroments are really powerful. Through them, humans can...
Continue reading...A meme a day keeps the doctor away
“An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.” This definition...
Continue reading...A wave of digital icons
“By the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the digital image […] became a powerful tool for simulating reality that will deceive in future...
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Computers can do anything or almost anything. They can even read books with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Images from printed pages are converted...
Continue reading...Blackwashing/whitewashing
No, this title is not referring to your laundry. It does refer to when people for instance use a white person to represent a black person...
Continue reading...Venice Time Machine
Probably one of the coolest digital historical projects I’ve ever run into is the Venice Time Machine. Before we talk any further, you should watch a...
Continue reading...Travel: get to know the world
Today I would like to do a bit of an excursion from the usual theme I have in my blog. From the second of October till...
Continue reading...The future of the historian
May 2 1968 riots broke out in France. Demonstrations started at Paris University and soon spread all over the country, drawing in more students, factory workers,...
Continue reading...A Job Well Done
In the blog I wrote last week I talked about the fact that the field of studying old cultures is a somewhat old-fashioned one. And while...
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