Every morning, I open Instagram, not to scroll my feed, but to tap through stories. They vanish after 24 hours, yet they somehow feel more real...
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Medium of the Library in our Pocket
Ebooks – the incredible invention of our time, allowing us to read something as massive as the 5th Harry Potter on something as tiny as an...
Continue reading...“There’s No Tone in Texting!” – Phil Dunphy
This month, a student board I’m on held a communication style presentation session. Not the usual meeting to plan an event, or to give updates and...
Continue reading...How Short Video Platforms Shape Information
The development of the internet has brought about an information explosion, but the day is only 24 hours long. A movie takes two hours, and a...
Continue reading...Podcasting: Shaping the Message
Podcasting, it is everywhere. On your phone, in your car, at the gym or even while you are cooking dinner. Everyone seems to be listening to...
Continue reading...Where in the world is proper IT education?*
(probably some countries, but not mine) Outdated IT lessons Nowadays, as the digital world’s impact is becoming impossible to ignore, more and more countries are introducing...
Continue reading...Where MUBI and Netflix collide
In todays world there are so many streaming services to choose from that you can almost drown in the choices. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max etc....
Continue reading...Where on Earth is the Floppy Disk?
There’s this post that I came across while scrolling on Instagram, and it definitely comes back to me every now and then: It’s one of those...
Continue reading...Where does TikTok belong in World Politics?
I was entering my final year of high school when TikTok took off. For a brief period there, it was used as intended and reached the...
Continue reading...Masks of Myself in the Digital Maze
Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Netflix, Youtube, Apple TV, Eurostar App, Wattpad, Apple Music, Duolingo, Spotify, Bookly, Iphone, Ipad, Kindle, Discord, Whatsapp, Google maps, Linkedin…. The list of...
Continue reading...Where in the World is Instagram? The Afterlife of a Banned App in Mainland China
Mark Zuckerberg once claimed that “people use their real names on Facebook […] and I think that’s a really simple social solution to a possibly complex...
Continue reading...Where in the World Is TikTok?
If you asked me to name one app that truly feels global, I’d say TikTok without even thinking. I use TikTok literally every single day, sometimes...
Continue reading...“Everywhere and Nowhere: Locating ChatGPT in the Digital World”
Where in the world is a digital medium?It’s a good question, maybe even an impossible one. Because it’s digital, it can be nowhere and everywhere at the...
Continue reading...In Search for a New Space: Cultural Perception through Digital Media
It is a truth universally acknowledged that people create a certain persona on online platforms, such as social media. How we love to display ideal versions...
Continue reading...WHERE IS THE TV REMOTE?!
This question is one that is asked almost daily in my household, and I am pretty sure it is the same case for your family. Everyone...
Continue reading...Where in the World Is PenPal World?
The first time I held my iPad, I felt as if I had opened a small door into an unknown universe. I had just finished the...
Continue reading...YouTube is everywhere
When we think about the digital world, one platform seems to stand out above all others: YouTube. What began as a small website to share videos...
Continue reading...Mind Starved
“Our modern community is mind-starved and mind-hungry. It is justifiably uneasy and suspicious of the quality of what it gets. The hungry sheep look up and...
Continue reading...Drowning in Data: Are We Really Free in the Digital Age?
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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