We all know the image of the court jester: a funny little guy dressed in bright colors and a silly hat, maybe doing a weird-looking dance...
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Kidfluencers: The New Generation of Child Stars
One thing I hate to see on my timeline is content made by or centred around kids. Mommy influencers, “kidfluencers” and videos of children’s vulnerable moments,...
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This summer, Dutch regional radio station RTV Drenthe hired a new newsreader: the news bulletins on Saturday and Sunday, still written by human journalists, are now...
Continue reading...Brains of the World, and Degradation of Programming!
One of the most heard words, if not the most heard word, in the programming scenery is ‘create’, along with its inflections. However, only a programmer...
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Chasing Fame in the Digital Age
Chasing Fame in the Digital Age And boom you’re famous. It happens all the time on the internet nowadays. especially with social media like TikTok. Some...
Continue reading...Stan Culture: Fandoms in the Digital Age
From the moment I’ve first had access to the internet, I’ve continuously been in different fan communities. My pre-teen and teenage years were spent “fangirling” over...
Continue reading...Analog Nostalgia in the Digital Age
In today’s digital society, we are constantly barraged with stimuli, be it our phones, billboards, or a thousand flashing lights enticing us to venture into that...
Continue reading...Every Girl on TikTok wants to be a Slavic Doll
Last winter of 2023/24 women worldwide were cosplaying Slavic girls. Slavic Girl Trend emerged on TikTok – women were filming themselves dancing to the song by...
Continue reading...Secularisation, Individualism and ChatGPT
For the vast majority of human history, we lived in relatively small communities, often with only minor religious differences that made it easy to communicate with...
Continue reading...A Black Hole: The Apple Ecosystem
It would be fair to say that many companies develop their ecosystems within their digital products. One of the most commonly recognized ones is The Apple...
Continue reading...The Death of Connection in the Digital World
Something that has popping up a lot on my mind lately is the feeling of being (dis)connected. The English Cambridge Dictionary defines “connection” (feeling) as: “feeling...
Continue reading...What Faded Away in Time
As a millennial, we literally were born on the edge of the digital world, and the era before. Outdated products were disposed of, and replaced by...
Continue reading...How Do We Prepare Future Generations for Their Life in the Digital?
In my last blog on ongoing digitalisation with respect to the radio, I asked myself whether one has the right to lead a life outside of...
Continue reading...Byte-Sized History: Key Milestones in Digital Media
Since harnessing the power of digits, we’ve been able to do a bunch of cool stuff with it. It hasn’t even been 100 years, and we’ve...
Continue reading...An audience of one in a post-information age
In his widely known book Being Digital (1995), Nicholas Negroponte describes what he calls the post-information age; an age of rapidly emerging technologies and ever-evolving electronics....
Continue reading...Digital VS Analog: Music
I am once again back in my room, typing on my computer. As per usual, I have put on a record to listen to as I...
Continue reading...From the first cell phone to today
I’m sitting on my parents’ old couch at a family celebration. It’s a very funny, relaxed atmosphere when my mother gets up and announces promisingly that...
Continue reading...A mobile game made me feel old
After I just finished reading some mandatory literature in the university library, I walked down to the cafeteria to eat my lunch. As I start eating...
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On our Christmas holiday we went to California with the whole family. My brother who is three years older than me saved up a lot of...
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