Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is pick up my phone, scrolling through the latest news, social media updates, and endless...
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Group 104 – 2526
TikTok Told Me So
At 7am every Sunday morning, my dad gets up to go buy his weekly newspaper. Whatever stories get published throughout the week, he reads on his...
Continue reading...ChatGPT As Therapy?
My mother came to me the other day quite baffled by the actions of her close friend; she explained to me how her friend would diagnose...
Continue reading...Trying to Make Myself Not Scared of The Internet (Part 1)
If you read my blog last week, you might remember me talking about seing people getting shot on Youtube as a kid and how this affected...
Continue reading...The Algorithm Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
We’ve all had that moment: you’re scrolling through Instagram or TikTok, and suddenly a post appears that feels a little too accurate. Maybe it’s the exact...
Continue reading...Essay writings and AI application
“Stay critical!“ When I stared at the bold, eye-catching words, my mind involuntarily drifted back to my experiences interacting with GPT while writing my essays. The...
Continue reading...Humans and Digital Technology: In Finding Knowledge
What is the best way to satisfy that knowledge-hungry brain of yours? The answer is simple: feed it books. Now that autumn has officially arrived, the...
Continue reading...How I Search for Knowledge in the Digital World
When I have to find something out, whether it’s about daily life, the meaning of a new TikTok trend, or research for a university assignment, my...
Continue reading...Just slow down
Hyper-productivity The overstimulation of our brains and nervous systems that happens through the digital media has now become a common standard. We can stream music, listen...
Continue reading...AI, Google and social media
How Wikipedia is misleading us
Have you ever searched something up and the first webpage you get recommended is Wikipedia? As a student who has to write academic papers, Wikipedia is...
Continue reading...finding stuff online (wikipedia is great but sucks)
I remember clearly how when I was in primary school, being about 9 years old, we needed to start writing ESSAYS on topics that interested us....
Continue reading...Google VS TikTok
This week’s prompt got me thinking about using other platforms and apps to find information. Reflecting on my own use of digital media as a search...
Continue reading...Log, Rate, Review, Letterboxd
I watch a lot of films, not only because I study film, but also because I love film. After watching a film I, and most people,...
Continue reading...Can We Trust Information in the Huge Digital World?
Nowadays, the most common medium to gather information is the digital world. Of course, there are many platforms and many ways to approach them, therefore it...
Continue reading...Not every answer is the right one
Not too long ago I was having a conversation with my parents and we talked about how I find it crazy that back then, you could...
Continue reading...In the third year of the 21st century
In the third year of the 21st century, my parents and I lived 960 kilometers away from our hometown. The first set of numbers I remember...
Continue reading...Where the internet is still free and wild
Oftentimes I hear people talk about how the internet is paved over and the companies turned it into a giant shopping mall. We go to Facebook...
Continue reading...The iPad Epidemic
When I think back to my earliest memories of digital technology, I picture my sister and I picking which movie to watch from our grandmother’s collection...
Continue reading...When I was a kid: My first encounters and misses with the computer
When I try to recall my earliest memories of digital technology, the image of my seven years emerged at first. At that time, computers were still...
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