Media Maesters
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,...
Continue reading...Million dollar faces
The Limited Digital Presence of Gilgamesh in Digital Media
Early Memory of the Digital: Regulating Emotions
When reflecting upon experiences with digital technology I had when I was little, I immediately thought of the many early mornings spent with my little brother...
Continue reading...Zepotha – An amazing 80s horror movie or..?
Have any of you seen that cult 80s horror movie called Zepotha? It used to be on some streaming platforms, but then randomly got taken down...
Continue reading...Newspapers working with technology
I have been in this country for a month now and I call my brother every week, this last time he was talking about our family...
Continue reading...Tech-cavemen: imagining the prehistoric social networking
Posting content on social media has become a habit for us millennials and Gen Z, but have you ever wondered what it would have been like...
Continue reading...Machine translation tools: is it still worth it to learn a foreign language?
Let’s be honest: who among us has never turned to an automatic translation tool to convert a sentence from one language to another? It’s no secret...
Continue reading...Making The Day Less Digital: Tackling My Phone Addiction
Harnessing AI for School Projects
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into our daily lives has been astounding. From virtual personal assistants such as Alexa. to self-driving cars; AI has quickly...
Continue reading...Parasocial relationships and fandom culture in the “digital” Age
Obsessing over a celebrity’s life has perhaps been, in my opinion, one of the most explicit proofs of how today the lines between the public and...
Continue reading...My Morning Ritual: Nostalgia in the Digital Age
Viral Sensations of Aliens – Hoax or Scientific Discovery?
Mexico’s recent findings have sparked a huge online debate. It is about the two ‘alien corpses’ revealed by the Mexican congress on 12 September. For many...
Continue reading...The paradox of cancel-culture – Is it creating more toxicity rather than decreasing it?
Perhaps one of the most important parts of social media is finding the “person” we want to put out there. At the end of the day...
Continue reading...A day in the digital: Spend the day with me and my bestie (iPhone)
Wake up lazy bu**!!! Your phone alarm is vibrating. This is the first thing my brain think about every morning… I wish I were Barbie, so...
Continue reading...A Day in the Digital: Temporal notions of “worth”
As of writing this blog post, I have caught a bit of a cold. Days like these are marked by an increase of screen time in...
Continue reading...NFTs: Fad or the Future of Art?
The art world is no stranger to the increasingly rapid, and brutal, trend cycles of the digital age. Nonetheless, the desire to stick to our centuries...
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