In the first part of this three-part podcast on the future-shaping potential of current trends in technology, Andrea Blätler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss videogame...
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ASMR (video)
A year ago I had a discussion with a friend about ASMR. We had very different opinions: she is a fan, she listens to sleep ASMR...
Continue reading...How watching my brother play video games made me into an avid media consumer
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Digital Media through Generations Part 2/2
In this second part of the podcast, I will be interviewing my parents on their digital media consumption in order to establish whether there is a...
Continue reading...Paradise Hills
Paradise Hills is a film by director Alice Waddington and premiered 26 January 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival. When I watched this film back in...
Continue reading...My digital journey
Where did I come from and where will I go? It wasn’t until I went to high school that I got my first smartphone and I...
Continue reading...The internets pandemic of bad Sherlock Holmes’s
A couple of months back, a certain Tiktok of a girl surprise visiting her long-distance boyfriend went viral. The boyfriend in question was nicknamed ‘Couch guy’....
Continue reading...The wired headset has become a new retro trend! Are young people tired of AirPods?
The Wall Street Journal published a review article on the topic of AirPods. However, the article is not discussing the newly released AirPods3 this year, nor...
Continue reading...Is Martin Cabello real or just playing a character? – the disturbing side of an internet ‘personality’
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Westworld
During the lecture on cyborgs, a TV series I had not thought about in a while crossed my mind. It’s called Westworld. It premiered in 2016...
Continue reading...Is Subway a person? Personifying Companies Through Social Media Influencers
This blog is a continuation of a previous blog “Corporate Tik Tok”. After my research on how corporate companies are creating personas for themselves and redefining...
Continue reading...The new snake oil marketplace
Today I read a news article about Dutch influencer Donny Roelvink who apologized for recommending a cosmetic medical procedure. He had had porcelain plates added to...
Continue reading...Dungeons and Dragons and Digital spaces
What is Dungeons and Dragons? Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D for short, is a tabletop RPG where the core is storytelling and the goal is having...
Continue reading...Spotify wrapped: most wonderful time of the year
It Wednesday December 1 and I open Instagram and see a story that fills me with so much joy and excitement. It is a story that...
Continue reading...UNSEE US: NO MASS SURVEILLANCE ON LEIDEN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
Imagine a building you’re obligated to enter every week, where cameras are faced on every entrance and exit. These cameras are owned by a company which...
Continue reading...Fast fashion and influencers: social media made me buy it!
As Black Friday is approaching and has increased in popularity in The Netherlands, I thought it would be interesting to write about the impact of social...
Continue reading...Youtube fitness content, how it kept me more motivated to keep exercising.
I’ve had multiple subscriptions to multiple gyms, but after a few months I just had no motivation to continue going. I was either too busy or...
Continue reading...Is success on Youtube based on skill or luck? – Ludwig tests a theory
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Digital Media through Generations part 1/2
In this first podcast, I will be interviewing my younger sisters on their digital media consumption.
Continue reading...Behind the scenes: what does a twitch mod see?
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