A few weeks ago, one of my roommates shared with us the research topic for her bachelor’s thesis on the alleged end of subcultures, and it...
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Digital Display, Artistic Personalities on the Internet
Artistic Persona How much does an artistic Instagram profile have in common with the actual person standing behind it? As I wrote about digital identities in...
Continue reading...Smartphone Surveillance and Human Rights
I think we are all aware, that we live in an age where information is currency and every page we visit is gathering data. Rationally we...
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Redefining Creativity As A Young Artist
As a self-proclaimed artist or a creative at best, I often feel overwhelmed by my inspirations. The other day, when I visited the Hilma af Klint...
Continue reading...How tv and videogames made me read,write and speak the english language.
yoursisbillie is not Kendall Jenner
Instagram recently rolled out a new AI feature in collaboration with about two dozen celebrities using their faces to promote fictional character chatbots. Among these are...
Continue reading...What does “the web” look like ? 2/3
A little bit of context : We all know the internet as an intangible entity, a digitized world on its own. However, the internet has a...
Continue reading...90s Yearbook photo trend; it’s all fun and games until your identity gets taken away from you
In the past year, artificial intelligence (AI) has been developing at a staggering rate. It has so many different functions, too many to list, but a...
Continue reading...The Collective Memory of Now: How our Digital presence has shaped what, why and how we remember.
The cultural link made between individualism and memory has been a consistent factor in the history of human thought. Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke even hypothesised that...
Continue reading...I no longer enjoy reading – books and media (part 1)
One thing about me is that I have been obsessed with books for a while now. Not just as in reading books, but collecting them, spending...
Continue reading...The effects of education on later digital behaviour
When reading last week’s inspiration (What is your earliest memory of digital media?) and talking about others in class and the discussion group, it got me...
Continue reading...Would you like to be a digital being?
In the Wandering Earth film, there is an argument that when the Earth can no longer meet the survival needs of human beings, should human beings...
Continue reading...Are Concerts Overrated?
A few weeks ago, I went to a concert by a K-pop girl group, (G)-IDLE. And I was quite disappointed, to say the least. This week...
Continue reading...An Age of (Re)discovery: ‘Duvet’ by bôa and how TikTok has transformed the way we consume music.
If you’ve used TikTok at any point over the past six months, you’ve most likely heard this song. Whether it be the chorus, the first thirty...
Continue reading...Sizing in Online Shopping
Recently, I’ve been searching for a pair of knee high boots for the winter. I looked around here in Leiden but couldn’t find anything I liked...
Continue reading...The craziest thing about being creative is…
Last week I wrote about a girl who created a non-existing movie, made it a trend and used it as a marketing strategy. This week I...
Continue reading...information cocoon
The explosion of information has brought about the more obvious phenomenon of “information cocoon”. On the one hand, due to the explosion of information, it is...
Continue reading...No more olive oil ice cream + orange wine: how TikTok de-localized the local spots and ultimately, changed the way we travel.
A few weeks ago, while Face Timing my mother she showed me a package that my dad had ordered and it had just arrived at the...
Continue reading...Beyond the Blue Sky: the impact of Microsoft XP’s default background.
What is your digital first memory? For many, it’s hard to pin-point. But when it comes down to the first digital image I can distinctly recall,...
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