With the high popularity of the Internet and smartphones, technological knowledge has become a must-have for consumers. From buying clothes to electrical products, everything has become...
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Dawn of the Age of Subscriptions
I’m a big fan of the show Gravity Falls, I’ve seen it a couple of times already. I also loved the movie Moana, and I still...
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Podcast: Cultural identity in Digital Media
With insights from last week’s readings and examples from current popular media, Unnur and Grace discuss and reflect on their experience with cultural identity in digital media.
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Whether it was boredom, intrigue, or peer pressure, many people joined TikTok during the near-global lockdown. No matter the reason why, every single one went on...
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I still remember the feeling like it was yesterday. The people gathering all around me. The crowd cheers during, and after, every song. People yelling their...
Continue reading...The impact of COVID-19 on the development trend of Taiwan’s industry
At the beginning of November 2019, the COVID-19 has spread to more than 120 countries and regions around the world in just a few months with...
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I think everybody has heard of fanfiction, but people have many different ideas about and opinions of what it is. In Media and Social studies there...
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The (In)Humanity of the Internet
With the amount of time people spend in front of screens, it is not unusual to see some changes within online communities. A somewhat recent change...
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In this podcast, I interview René van Munster, a classical cellist and portfolio musician who performs with several ensembles in the Netherlands, such as Cello Octet...
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History Tone indicators go way back, all the way to the late 16th century when a man named Henry Denham tried to introduce the percontation point....
Continue reading...The Rise of the Influencer and its Implications on Social Media
I think my first memory of using a social media platform was probably MySpace. In all honesty, I only had one friend — two, if you...
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Marrying the Digital
When talking about the digital in the past, people usually envisioned an infinite space where collective knowledge would be gathered. The internet would bring people together,...
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Ever since moving in together, my boyfriend and I have been obsessing over having a little companion in the house. We’d always really wanted a cat...
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Our life is filled with happy accidents. We make mistakes, regret them and then make the best out of a sticky situation. Most of us will...
Continue reading...Studying online, why not try using StudyStream?
When talking about digitalization, the first thing that came to my mind is school. Since the second semester of my first year, I have taken most...
Continue reading...The influence of ‘influencers’ on social media
In today’s day and age, if a company wants the public to buy their product, a social media influencer is the way to go. Instead of...
Continue reading...Social Media, Capitalism and Performance: ranting about living in a post-digital age
As I was philosophising about what topic to talk about in this week’s blog post, I thought about the people I looked up to in the...
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