Everyone that has used TikTok or Instagram knows them: TikTok bro’s. For everyone that does not know what I mean with that term: I define a...
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Adblockers and YouTube
The effects of digital media and culture on Industrial Design
I am not exactly a humanities student. I am following this course because it is part of the Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence minor. Normally I...
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MBTI: From Personality Types to Memes, Why We Can’t Get Enough
If you’ve been exploring the online world lately, you’ve likely come across a peculiar combination of four letters in your social media feeds. It’s almost become...
Continue reading...What would Plato do? Contemplating my use of Social Media
OSINT – a safe journalism ?
As you might notice, I like to make posts about subjects only a few people know about. This post was supposed to be the first post...
Continue reading...OSINT – a new journalism
These last weeks, we talked a lot about the impact of the digital world on our consumption of information. However, we barely spoked about the way...
Continue reading...My social media detox – How’d it go?
Starting this course, I have started thinking more and more about my behaviour regarding to digital media, and the effect digital media has on my life....
Continue reading...Translating, should we rely on automatic translation tools or not?
I am a translation and interpreting student in Spain doing here my Erasmus exchange year and I couldn’t resist not writing something on this topic before...
Continue reading...Disney Remakes in the Digital Age: Navigating Inclusivity and Authenticity
Contactless payments with your phone
Since when don’t you take out your wallet to take some cash and pay whatever? In my case, I just take my wallet to take my...
Continue reading...Rowing’s benefits and limitations of digital media
In todays blog, I would like to talk about one of my biggest hobbies in everyday life, rowing. And of course, how this is affected by...
Continue reading...Digital/Printed Photos
What is an album?? Do you remember your grandma’s bookshelf full of photo albums? I do and I loved it when she or my mom started...
Continue reading...What does “the web” look like ? 3/3
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...Main Character Syndrome and Chronically Online: Hyper Individualism and Distorted Reality perception
If you are someone who spends a lot of time online, you might have heard of the terms “main character syndrome” and “chronically online”. In this...
Continue reading...No friends? Meta has the solution!
AI – Learning the “Smart” Way
Just a few days ago, I had been doing my regular scroll through my TikTok ‘For You Page’ when suddenly a video about a new AI...
Continue reading...After My Death, What Happens to My Digital Legacy?
Have you ever wondered what will happen to your digital profiles, accounts, texts, and data when you die? Will friends and family continue to post messages? What about...
Continue reading...Chinese Netizens and the Israel-Hamas Conflict: Illuminating a Complex Sociocultural Landscape
The Israel-Hamas conflict has not only dominated international headlines but has also captivated Chinese netizens, offering a window into the multifaceted sociocultural landscape of China. In...
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