While scrolling through TikTok recently, I came across an ad for an app that lets you chat with an AI boyfriend. The app was marketed as...
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Does it Matter That Our Data Is Being Sold?
In today’s digital society, we grant countless apps and websites permission to collect personal data. Personally, I have given Google Maps permission to track my location,...
Continue reading...AI: Progress Engine or Bias Mirror?
I can already no longer imagine a society without AI. At an incredible pace, AI-based systems are being integrated everywhere to make our world more efficient...
Continue reading...Escaping Real Life: Why Life-Simulator Games Are So Appealing
For as long as humans have existed, we’ve sought ways to unwind and escape the grind of daily life. From ancient board games to today’s immersive...
Continue reading...How Social Media Became a Polarization Machine
Social media has rapidly transformed the world into a hyperconnected network. While these platforms foster connections across borders, they are increasingly being misused as tools for...
Continue reading...Ctrl+Alt+Dream
There is this aspect of endlessly staring at screens, despite exhaustion, teary eyes, and late-night fatigue. Whatever the content, it’s the light that keeps us captivated—like...
Continue reading...The Enduring Legacy of Dark Souls and the Souls-Like Genre
The “Souls” series started with a game called “Demon Souls”. Known for its punishing difficulty, cryptic lore, and minimal handholding, it challenged players in ways that...
Continue reading...Silence, brand: Internet vs Mainstream
Bring yourselves back to the early 2010s if you would. The internet has quickly become mainstream. No longer the clunky, dial up version of the past,...
Continue reading...The Role of Social Media in Shaping Political Discourse
Social Media as a Platform for Political Engagement Social media allows politicians, activists, and citizens alike to share their messages directly with a wide audience, without...
Continue reading...Day in the Digital: What even is digital?
An alarm wakes you up. It’s on your phone of course. You blearily reach over to turn it off, the screen blinding you in the process....
Continue reading...Bluesky: The New “Old” Twitter
Twitter is arguably one of my most used social media platforms. I was, sometimes still am, an avid user and would tweet every little thing that...
Continue reading...What Has Become a Reality in Person of Interest
Person of Interest (POI) is my personal top ten favorite TV series. It tells of the story of a geek genius, Harold Finch, and a former...
Continue reading...The Rise of Incel Language on the internet
In recent years, a linguistic shift has taken place: the language once confined to incel (involuntary celibate) communities has increasingly begun to be used in other...
Continue reading...DMC&S Podcast: Student Jobs in Leiden
Working while studying can seem stressful at first, however, it teaches time management, emotional intelligence, and a set of personalised skills depending on the job’s demands....
Continue reading...Video Essay: The Subtle Joy of Oddly Satisfying Videos
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The Vast Impact of Digitalization
On this podcast, Helen, Jet, and Tsamarah talked about the impact of digitalization in our respective fields of study. Topics including the advancement of Geographic Information...
Continue reading...Video Essay: League of Legends, More than a Game
This is a short video essay about League of Legends and its E-sport scene. This has been a challenging project as I do not have any...
Continue reading...Nostalgia in the Digital Realm
AMS students—Helmi Kukka Kärki, Zuzanna Dziedzic, and Agnietė Gelažunaitė—discussing the current phenomenon of nostalgia in the digital realm. In today’s world of rapid digitalisation, constant innovation,...
Continue reading...Video Essay: a slang and its development
This video generally introduced a slang and its development. p.s. I only used AI to generate the looping talking GIF. https://video.leidenuniv.nl/media/t/1_xvq4gq68
Continue reading...A Podcast Called Digital Media: Discussing Algorithmic Culture
Below is our podcast, it was made by Rana Aydemir, Quintus van Suchtelen and Pablo Hernández Flores. In it, we dicuss the place that algorithms hold...
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