These days on social media, we see makeup trends with a set of “rules” to be followed, and everybody doing the same things the same way,...
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Trump 2016: How Cambridge Analytica breached data privacy ethics to help Trump win.
Introduction At the time of writing this, the 2024 US presidential election is just around the corner. With Trump facing off against Harris, it is a...
Continue reading...Algocracy: Government by Algorithm
I am a simple man; when I see a cat video coming by on YouTube shorts recommendations I click on it. For a whole 25 seconds,...
Continue reading...Does the human brain degrade, while The World Brain progresses?
Recently, I realised that watching a full movie seems like a task and not a pleasure for me. I am not even mentioning reading or studying...
Continue reading...Technological evolution meets modern medicine: Neuralink’s brain chip
Back in the day, the idea of controlling computers with our minds seemed just far from reality. The only times we saw something like that was...
Continue reading...THERE ARE BUGS UNDER YOUR SKIN, and being scared of the number 7
Another week, another day in which I am sitting in my room, in front of my computer, spinning a record as I type. This week’s pick...
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The Twitch Streamer as a Digital Jester
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...
Continue reading...Kidfluencers: The New Generation of Child Stars
Kids are becoming social media stars, often without understanding the impact. Parents of “kidfluencers” profit from their children’s online presence, but unlike child actors, these kids lack protections. The result? A childhood turned into a performance, with lasting emotional and financial consequences.
Continue reading...The Rise of Artificial Voices and How We Perceive Them
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
And boom you’re famous. It happens all the time on the internet nowadays. especially with social media like TikTok. Some of my friends experienced this when...
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...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...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....
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