My fellow classmates made some articles about V-tubers, these digital figures often take inspiration from otaku culture, which is to be put simply the Japanese gaming,...
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Study of an internet artifact: Usis
This is the season of the year where students can enroll for courses from the second semester. Confusion and error messages spread through the Whatsapp groups....
Continue reading...Top 3 ways paper is a vector of innovation for digital media, but also a way to escape it. (part 3 – apps)
In this third and last top 3 about digital and paper I will speak about some apps. We already saw some of them in the first...
Continue reading...In defense of digital books
In this blog post I want to explore the aspect of digital books. In a previous post I analyzed how they relate to paper books. But...
Continue reading...Top 3 ways paper is a vector of innovation for digital media, but also a way to escape it. (part 2 – reading)
From “Burn Her” to “Yaas Witch”
I’ve always been fascinated by Witches so I decided to make a little homage video to their story and societal progression, following their changing status from...
Continue reading...How does one talk about looking for drugs in a forest?
In a previous article, I discussed the curious entanglement between the Hydra online drug marketplace and post-soviet urban planning. This peculiar business model requires not only...
Continue reading...QWERTY but write it in Arabic
2020 has been a year marked by conversations about racism and colonialism taking their rightful place in the mainstream. So the convergence of conversations about racism...
Continue reading...The power of sound
Our lives keep getting busier and busier every year. We love to rush things, increase our standards and receive better results in a shorter period of...
Continue reading...Decentralization and Wikileaks: Opportunities and Challenges for Traditional News Platforms
Wikileaks has become famous through publishing secret information. With its new and radical approach to the freedom of information, Wikileaks distinguishes itself from classical news organizations,...
Continue reading...Privacy invading Surveillance Techniques: Immediate Ways to Evade Facial Recognition
Facial recognition software is one of the most hotly debated technological advancements of our time. The possibilities of misuse brought many companies to put the development...
Continue reading...Order desk: digital shop in shop
By: Marcel Beentjes My last podcast for this course is about order desks that are used in GAMMA shops since a few years and that can...
Continue reading...AI and my future career
While I was wondering what I should write about in my last blog, I realized how much I actually enjoyed writing. As I am considering doing...
Continue reading...Loveable Robot Companions and AI Ethics
It’s a very popular sci-fi trope, a cutesy robot that the viewer develops warm feelings for as the machine proves itself to be capable of acting...
Continue reading...Decentralized social media: Yay or Nay?
As the anti-big tech sentiment pivoted in recent years, ensues efforts to curb their reigning influence and power. In late October this year, on top of...
Continue reading...Pandemic Albums
What’s up with them, anyway? It is often said that from suffering and hardship, amazing art arises. It’s an argument that can lead to the flawed...
Continue reading...Digital Art: Expression Beyond Capability
“Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries…” – Neville Brody Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to visit NXT Museum in Amsterdam,...
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