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...
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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 Outdated products were disposed of, and replaced by...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...
Continue reading...My Digital Nostalgia
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...
Continue reading...The Chess-boom of 2021
This isn’t just a story about a boring old board game. This is a story about how a worldwide pandemic, a hit Netflix series, a scandal...
Continue reading...A digital journey to ‘Empresses in the Palace’
“Empresses in the Palace” (Chinese: Zhen Huan Zhuan) is a Chinese historical drama series adapted from the novel of the same name by the author Liu...
Continue reading...The Rise of Ridiculous Beauty Standards
The first thing most of us do right after waking up in the morning is to check our phone. Even if you don’t spend much time...
Continue reading...A Day in The Digital: To Watch or Not To Watch
Have you ever spent an absurd amount of time scrolling through Netflix or other streaming services looking for the perfect series or film to accompany your...
Continue reading...How YouTube brought me here
My first YouTube experience At the time of YouTube’s launch, I was four years of age. Though I most certainly did not use it at that...
Continue reading...Navigating My Career and Future Through Digital Media
Recently, I edited my CV since I was applying for a student part-time job. When I looked at the final copy it made me realise that...
Continue reading...Who decides what our relationship with the digital will be?
In this blog, I share how the digital world plays a significant role in my daily life and how, for the most part, this connection has been beneficial to me. However, I also reflect on the delicate balance between healthy and unhealthy digital usage, exploring how it can sometimes lead to addiction and excessive behaviors. To shed light on this issue, I discuss a lawsuit that points to those who might be driving these troubling patterns.
Continue reading...Welcome to your first day @ Digital!
Welcome message 💌 Hi! Thank you for interest in joining Digital 😀 At Digital, you can find all kinds of information you could ever think of,...
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