As usual, I was scrolling through multiple RELIABLE news sources for inspiration for my blog posts, and I stumbled across this article by Business Insider. President...
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How Political Fandom is Shaping the World
14 November 2020 Source: How Fan Culture is Swallowing Democracy. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/arts/how-fan-culture-is-swallowing-democracy.html
Continue reading...Plurilingual parliament, how does it work?
By Marcel Beentjes, student French language and culture Good morning everyone! Today I am going to talk about the European Parliament. I will first give you...
Continue reading...Women in the E-sports
Most well-known women in e-sport –- performers instead of players Recently, K/DA released a new song More and performed it at the opening ceremony of the 2020 League...
Continue reading...Digital Discussions Episode 1
Pilot Episode This the pilot episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. In this...
Continue reading...Emotions for Likes: It’s Good for Business
Written by: Akif Aliyev The year of 2020 in many senses has been a year of reflection. Not just for me I believe, but for all...
Continue reading...Social Media as a powerful modern establishment
Political, military, and economic news has always been a major part of the everyday life of any society. Even my family including grandparents on both sides...
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You’ll close your eyes to the pictures, the memories and eventually the facts
Since the existence of image-based journalism and the overall rise in various media formats, we have become oversaturated with images. This in itself does not have...
Continue reading...‘im here to learn so :))))))’ – The exploitation of an AI *Trigger warning for the content of some images*
Some people may have heard of the short-lived existence of Microsoft’s AI chatbot called ‘Tay,’ others may have completely missed the event. The latter would come...
Continue reading...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...Jesus is a Transvestite
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...
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Video: “Big Brother is us”
Crowdsourcing of Surveillance through Gamification Inspired by the virtual watchers project Burkhard Schafer – Crowdsourcing and cloudsourcing CCTV surveillance https://www.voanews.com/world-news/middle-east-dont-use/facebook-becomes-divisive-bahrain
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...
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