I once deleted Instagram from my smartphone in an attempt to minimalize the time wasted on social media. Over the next few days, I found myself...
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Digital Relationships (they don’t only come romantic)
In the digital world we live in, surely most of us have experience with keeping in touch between countries. Although the technology at our disposal makes it drastically easier to contact friends and loved ones in different countries, does it come close to what real-life physical interaction can give us?
Continue reading...A real-world Babel Fish
Those who`ve read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy know about the Babel Fish: A fish that, when placed in your ear, instantly translates all foreign...
Continue reading...Does social media affect my mental health?
“Social media causes depression”. “Teens should not make use of social media”. We hear a lot of these negative statements about social media these days. Is...
Continue reading...The Emergence of ‘New Digital Divide’
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The digital age and elderly people
Technology is developing at an unparalleled pace nowadays, new software, devices, techniques and accessories being released almost daily. As soon as you are getting used to...
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How the iPhone changed the world
On 9 januari 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone on stage at the Macworld conference with the words: “every once in a while, a revolutionary product...
Continue reading...The LinkedIn Dread
LinkedIn is a professional networking website, with an orientation toward business and employment, launched in 2003 by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, and...
Continue reading...Learning Russian with Putin
Before you start making things up in your mind, I will have to disappoint you: no, Putin did not teach me Russian himself. I am referring...
Continue reading...‘Just Chatting’
What I’ve noticed in our generation and its relation to media consumption is that even when we’re busy doing one task, we like to consume some...
Continue reading...Hidden Corners of Chinese Dissents——r/chonglangTV
(WARNING: May include racism and other unpleasant contents in the following!) Under China’s intense speech censorship and online surveillance, there is less and less room for...
Continue reading...MetaBirkins, how to be posh in the Metaverse.
A couple of weeks ago there was a lecture on the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg’s new interpretation and creation of an online community. So, what is the...
Continue reading...The end of the 2000-2010s vlogging era
After a day of classes and studying in high school there was nothing I enjoyed more than coming home and watching YouTube. More specifically, checking what...
Continue reading...Online Child Grooming – TW
I’m pretty sure everyone has shuddered at the thought of their (future) children being on social media at one point or another. It’s not because we...
Continue reading...Movie Mania (pt. 1): The Social Dilemma
Grace and Unnur are back with this part one of a two-parter podcast series talking of movies related to social media!
Continue reading...Help! I am a digital hoarder
Let’s talk about stuff. LOADS of stuff!Well…what is that stuff I’m talking about then? Here, I mean in particular the things that we collect and store...
Continue reading...True crime – the two sides of amateur criminology
Digitalization and worldwide Internet accessibility have led to interesting developments in the world of criminology. Dozens of cases have been solved due to the availability of...
Continue reading...The Tetris Effect
In 1984 in Moscow, Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer, invented the first version of the game Tetris. The goal of the game is simple; rotate and...
Continue reading...Hey, let’s be activists IRL tomorrow! — digital activism
A few weeks ago, I went to the climate march in Amsterdam. I had heard about it through a recommended Instagram post on my feed and...
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