Let’s (try to) create a video game How will I earn the ten points for the Digital Media, Culture and Society course? A question that all...
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The Pink Camera Paradox
The best gift I ever received as a child was a pink camera. I would line up all of my stuffed animals, take pictures of them,...
Continue reading...tfw you gotta write a blogpost about language #academia
Yeet. You may have used this when throwing a bottle away from you or maybe wanted to express a feeling of relief that the seagull ate...
Continue reading...Dependence Day
It’s 7 o’clock in the morning. I open my eyes, roll over to the left and try to localize where this noise is coming from. Of...
Continue reading...A Day in the Digital Life
We all know how this goes. You wake up, slapping your hand on your nightstand looking for that small flat piece of metal. Blue light blinding...
Continue reading...“Come see the invisible experience!”
How do I experience digital media in my daily life? When confronted with this question, it immediately started an on-going thinking-process in my brain. As if...
Continue reading...Humanoids
One of my fellow students, Karin, wrote a fair share of her blogs about the Japanese character Hatsune Miku. Check out Karins blog if you want...
Continue reading...Challenging Myself with Vocaloid
Am I doing it? Am I finally doing it? No, I am not going to write my own song using Vocaloid. Perhaps that could be a...
Continue reading...Scientology and the stars
In my previous blog I discussed the Anonymous banner and what it’s used for. The event that changed their status from ‘trolls on 4chan’ to the...
Continue reading...Video games: eternally controversial
In class, we discussed how gender roles have been portrayed in video games through time. There were some worrying discoveries we looked at, something which really...
Continue reading...VR and the courtroom
With our exploration of the history of VR in class, came very interesting stories. One that specifically caught my attention was the early sexual assault case...
Continue reading...The Social Media Algorithm
“I’m taking a break from social media” – every person alive, at some point, probably… A very common phrase that is uttered nowadays. The weight of...
Continue reading...Mind the Ga p: Sans Forgetica
Do we need more typefaces or individual fonts? As my last blog mentioned – we do a lot of reading on and off screen. Therefore, the...
Continue reading...A Brief Introduction to Online Extremism
In my previous blog, I introduced my plan to dig into the relationship between digital media and communities based on extreme ideas. Since then, I’ve reached...
Continue reading...Original – Sequel – Threequel?
In the world of media – particularly in the world of movies and games, developers and producers always try to create a best-selling product that would...
Continue reading...RSVP: What the Dickens!
In Charles Dicken’s Bleak House, a major theme of the book is reading and the inability to read – who can and who cannot read. One...
Continue reading...Double-keying
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...Digital Hate Culture
As I’m sure we all know, digital media has led to a rise in hate culture that has been on all sorts of digital platforms, be...
Continue reading...On Fake News
Fake news has been a great topic of interest in recent years – why though? According to research, fake news has been around ever since the...
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