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...Facebook conspiracy
Conspiracies are something that always interest me. The way people sometimes blatantly belief in something that others don’t just fascinates me. If I’m completely honest, sometimes...
Continue reading...Writing history in the age of Big Data
Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through...
Continue reading...You were right mom
Facebook was launched in 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates at Harvard University. Until 2006, Facebook’s main objective was to connect college students, notably those...
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...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...All Is Fair In Love & Cookies
The story of our lifetimes is how intentionally, by design, a number of institutions – both governmental and corporate – realized it was in their mutual...
Continue reading...Is Digital Media Democratizing? Vol.2
Is Digital Media Democratizing? Vol.1
Social media blunders
Nowadays, people know the ins and outs of social media. Especially children that grew up with iPads, tablets and smartphones have built up some sort of...
Continue reading...The Alternative Algorithm and Alternative Realities
The term ‘algorithm’ to many humanities-oriented people may seem like an abstract concept. One might understand it as a theoretical construct, but not necessarily grasp its...
Continue reading...Remembrance
As a child, we’ve all looked up at the night sky, trying to count the stars. But even that tiny piece of sky was so filled...
Continue reading...Behind the Screens : the Horrors of Facebook
Fragments
Fragmentation and risk taking Maffessoli observes that the idea of the ‘individual’ is in retreat and is suffering fragmentation; and that the individual Self seeks a...
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