Audio Transcript Disclaimer: this is our first podcast ever so beware of a lot of stopwords and awkward phrasing. To make this podcast more easily understandable...
Continue reading...Net Navigators
A Look Into Japan’s Nightlife Culture
What are the things that come to mind when you think about Japan? Most people I’ve spoken to mention things like the cleanliness, politeness, and overall...
Continue reading...What’s the hype (house)? Podcast
Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content.
Continue reading...
When will the Games Done Quick bubble burst?
The schedule for the speedrunning event Awesome Games Done Quick‘s 2023 edition was released this week. As I am a longtime follower of these events, I...
Continue reading...China’s game censorship and fragile national pride
I’m sure those of you who play video games regularly and are also interested in various humanities disciplines have noticed that video games can’t teach you...
Continue reading...Let’s have a music concert in Metaverse
This essay is based on my working experience with the metaverse platform. One day, I got a phone call from one soprano, whose artistic practice is...
Continue reading...Rule 34 – from TikTok trends to My Little Pony.
Many of us are at least somewhat familiar with the rule 34 – the idea that if something exists, there must be porn of it. Nowadays,...
Continue reading...The effects of modern tech company conglomeration
Company conglomeration is nothing new, but in the field of technology it has huge effects that we have not seen before. When a company starts to...
Continue reading...Apple and Ports, A Shaky Relationship
Remember the announcement of the iPhone 7? Replacing the flagship iPhone 6 series, it boasted a better performance, a nicer screen, and more resistance to water,...
Continue reading...Podcast: Digital Soundscape Episode 2 – digital sound from personal to public(by Annabel, Augustina)
As we introduced in the last episode, “the podcast series Digital Soundscape consists of 5 different episodes, which aim to offer deeper insights into digital sounds...
Continue reading...Death Stranding: Why We Connect?
Death Stranding is an open-world walking simulator with action elements, released in November 2019 by the Kojima Productions of the legendary game producer Hideo Kojima. The...
Continue reading...Modern warfare – the battle of the sexes and sexualization of women online.
Nowadays, very few of us are unfamiliar with the sexualization of women online. Whether it’s in the movies, tv shows, or video games, it appears that...
Continue reading...Free Speech!! Except… You Don’t – The Changes on Twitter and the Meaning of Free Speech
We probably all have heard it… Elon Musk finally bought Twitter. How bad can it be?! Well… As someone who uses Twitter quite a lot (don’t...
Continue reading...When something tragic happened: Seoul Halloween Crowd Crush and unfiltered content of this tragedy in social media.
Social media, such as Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc, has become a platform for creating and consuming content. Hereby, among many other functionalities of social media, it...
Continue reading...Dries Depoorter: privacy piracy?
After reading an interview with Belgian concept artist Dries Depoorter, I am surprised part of his portfolio has not been presented on this website yet, so...
Continue reading...“Burn Before Reading” How WeChat Censors Pictures and Videos
According to a study published by Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, Canada, WeChat – the largest social platform in China with...
Continue reading...Walking Simulators: Interactive Storytelling in Video Games
Before video games were a widespread form of entertainment, stories usually only came from movies and books. Even when they did start to pick up steam...
Continue reading...(Podcast) A Lovely Conversation – Ep 1: Romance on Social Media
Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content.
Continue reading...
Have you noticed them on the streets of Leiden?
Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content.
Continue reading...
AGE, SEX, LOCATION – a tale of online misdemeanor.
While we’ve already discussed the rise of cults and certain persons with the growth of Digital Media, a significant part of internet remains undiscovered. As Andrew...
Continue reading...
Recent Comments