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Is Digital Media Democratizing? Vol.2
Job application: Social media manager
This week’s blog I want to dedicate to my own interaction with social media, as someone who has managed the social media for several organisations. A...
Continue reading...Online streaming censorship in Turkey
This post entails the historical process of the Turkish entertainment industry, dealing mostly with the point where the streaming of TV series has gotten today. A...
Continue reading...Is Digital Media Democratizing? Vol.1
Language Games
The inspiration for writing this blog post came to me while trying to have a conversation with my mother. Keyword: trying. It has become increasingly difficult...
Continue reading...Digital Media As An Accelerator Of Perfectionism
Can you remember when you first heard of the concept, ‘mental health’? (I can’t.) I don’t remember being informed about mental health, its examples and potential...
Continue reading...Video:Internet Freedom
I did not exactly feel like writing a blogpost so I made an informative yet dramatic video called “On Online Freedom”, enjoy!
Continue reading...The environmental cost of the internet
Past weekend I had a discussion with my father about the climate march of the preceding Friday, I was talking about how the size of the...
Continue reading...Online personality cults
Orange
With this sudden appearance of cold and wet autumn weather, a natural occurrence comes back into our lives. I call this the ‘I’d-really-rather-not-go-outside-into-the-cold-and-the-rain’ phenomenon. A perfectly...
Continue reading...DestinyTalks Episode 1: Let’s talk about Tinder.
Join Iman Hasan Slaka, Caressa Betist Thenu and Joseph Thabang Palframan in this podcast exploring the realm of tinder!
Continue reading...The Magical School Bus of the Internet
As a late-nineties baby, I derive this laughable sense of comfort from distinctly remembering a time before the internet was a household necessity. Somehow I am...
Continue reading...They have been lying to you
Imagine your sentences getting cut off whilst you are speaking to a friend in the middle of your conversation. Or imagine your mom trying to turn...
Continue reading...Digital Media – Can you trust your senses?
Technological Advancements These times of exponential technological advancements, in both soft- and hardware, allow us to create AI’s (Artificial Intelligence) that have not been thought possible...
Continue reading...Instagram vs. reality
A few weeks ago, I was at a party. I sat at a table with a group of women in their fifties, as they opened up...
Continue reading...Your personality, your merch
You might enjoy video games, but did you know you can make a living out of playing them? This got me thinking, so I started investigating...
Continue reading...Dystopian future? China’s social credit system and the surveillance state
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...
Continue reading...Out of the Closets and Online
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...
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