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The ‘stories’ of my life
In the last post, I tried to discuss how the users’ FoMO (fear of missing out) effects and reinforces their constant participating of reading or posting...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Brains
Waking up dead tired on a dreary Saturday morning is never fun, but even more so in November. The sky is grey and it never seems...
Continue reading...What Does Our Facebook Profile Say About Us?
There are an immense amount of social media platforms current, probably we don’t even know about some of them. However, Facebook is probably the one that...
Continue reading...The Entire ‘Stories’ of You
“The Entire History of You” is the third and final episode of the first series of British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. The episode, set...
Continue reading...We are all cyborgs (video + blogpost)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9nRolGa42w The video titled ‘We Are All Cyborgs’ is a short introduction and artistic interpretation of Donna Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985). What is a cyborg you...
Continue reading...Memes and why I think they work
Memes are a typical feature of the internet. They show that humor becomes very ironical when it’s formed by billions of people at the same time....
Continue reading...Fear of the Machines: Hollywood’s portrayal of A.Is
Last Friday I went to the cinema in the first time in forever, for a viewing of the most recent Terminator movie. As you probably know,...
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DISCLAIMER This blog post is in Japanese, so when I used the title: ‘Use google translate’, I meant it, so please do! I will update this...
Continue reading...The Beauty of CGI and Instagram
This blog will be about the combination of CGI and how small, absurd and uncanny CGI animations have gone viral many times on Instagram. After last...
Continue reading...From Love Letters To Smartphone Screens
In my first blog post, I mentioned that I am a tv-maniac who can watch series all day every day if possible. There is something about...
Continue reading...Who rules the world? English! Vol.3
Hello there! Nice that you are joining me for part three – the final part – of my little series about English in digital environments. First,...
Continue reading...“OK, boomer” Vol. 2: Climate Change Kills
On my way to Leiden I witnessed a conversation that literally made the hairs in my neck stand up, much akin to a pissed off cat....
Continue reading...“OK boomer” Vol. 1: Pride Comes Before the Fall
The other day I went shopping in a garden centre. You know, one of those very large ones that require a map to navigate. Why I...
Continue reading...Digital Media As Means To Equality Or Diversity
In my previous blog posts, I have talked about the current orientation towards a digital era, increased digital and social media usage, increased perfectionism and stereotyping,...
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Framing I remembered the first time I encountered “frame” this vocabulary, I was already impressed by the negative meaning it could carry. My EFL teacher described...
Continue reading...this ONE trick got me to click on a spotify ad!
To tell you the truth, my appetite for discovering new music’s always been rather limited – I’m more than happy to listen to the same song...
Continue reading...Chinese science fiction, fiction or reality
Science fiction is one of my favourite genres at the moment, I enjoy anything from the casual Killjoy tv show to reading the books by Ursula...
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