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Media Maesters
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...
Continue reading...Google Maps
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...
Continue reading...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...
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