Enter location. Enter destination. Start navigation. That is the power of Google Maps, and it has become part of my everyday life, especially as an exchange...
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Who moved my data?
‘These would be a lot easier to identify with leaves‘. Standing amongst a thicket of white-frosted shrubs and broken twigs, minus temperatures, up to my hiking...
Continue reading...Are we forgetting to live in the moment?
The many platforms of digital media have enabled us to share every moment of our lives with our family, friends and acquaintances. Many a times, we...
Continue reading...The Emoji revolution
Imagine a world without digital communication. This seems to be something very hard to think about as digitally encoded information are part of our everyday lives...
Continue reading...“All the world’s a stage”
UrbanDash – a Virtual Reality game with as goal to get from Amsterdam Central Station to Herengracht in the shortest possible time without arguing with other...
Continue reading...The rise of music streaming services
Since the rise of digital media, there have been many changes in our world and day to day life. Digital media has impacted our lives tremendously...
Continue reading...The recontextualization of knowledge
Digitalisation has reshaped the ways in which knowledge can be created and shared. The numerous possibilities that this digital world contains allow us to access information...
Continue reading...Casper – your friendly ‘ghost’ tracker
Skyward. I was looking for a way into my next blog theme. I’m interested in the natural world and how the digital world impinges on that....
Continue reading...Digital Media – Boon or Bane?
Digital media has been lauded as a stepping stone in human interaction, connectivity, knowledge, and research. Since the advent of the Internet, it has brought about...
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Into the digital era The digital media have changed our rhythms and styles of lives and today digital electronic devices play a crucial role in our...
Continue reading...Internet and the Vulnerability of Personal Information
A few months earlier, I read numerous news articles regarding the Facebook personal data scandal. This scandal deals with a case where Cambridge Analytica, a UK...
Continue reading...Mind = Blown
The internet is a great place. Never in history has information been more accessible to so many people around the globe. Everything you want to know...
Continue reading...What is the message?
We as people love looking for meaning. I personally delight in finding for patterns and links. Though liking something does not mean we are any good...
Continue reading...The Curse Called ‘Social Media’
“Dear Grandma, I made my own e-mail account together with mom!” That’s the first line of the first e-mail I sent from the first e-mail address...
Continue reading...Clay Shirky revisited
Ten years ago Clay Shirky publiced his bestselling Here comes everybody. The power of organizing without organizations. I read the book a couple of years later...
Continue reading...“Don’t talk to strangers online.”
Despite growing up with computers (or perhaps because I grew up with computers) I do not remember my first encounter with the internet. I had my...
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A tidal wave of imagery
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Date: Me please
Left, Right, Right, Right, Left… Not only scrolling, but also swiping has been added to the extensive thumb and hand exercises the average adolescent does on...
Continue reading...Go outside
Gathering accounts When I was younger, there was a strict ‘no Social Media’-rule in my household. “Get away from that stupid computer, go outside!”, my mother...
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