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...
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fanfic appreciation post
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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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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The Digital brings us closer to each other, there is no doubt about that. Distances that used to be unbridgeable are now crossed in the blink...
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...
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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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The year 2021 has been, to say the least, Lil Nas X’ year. The 22-year-old rapper made his artistic debut back in 2019, when he released...
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In the digital age we are becoming more and more available because the internet connects us all. Today many people use instant messenger apps such as...
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Inspired by “Is it My Opinion?”, “The Ease of Online Shopping” – blogs from fellow students – and a New York Times article, I have decided...
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Online Fanfiction website: The Underestimated Grassroots literature
Are you a fan of something, whether it is a movie, a historical figure or even a football player? Have you ever read a fanfiction online...
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Google – The World’s Brain
Video: An Impression of Artbreeder
I just wanted to get past this Dark Souls boss why am I on an FBI watchlist.
To give us some direction, this week we got a prompt to help us write our first blog post. The prompt was: ‘What is your earliest...
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The A to Z of My Relationship w/the Internet
In hopes of wrapping up these series of blogs in style, I thought I would document the A to Z of things I have discovered through...
Continue reading...Will traditional media cease to exist?
For this last blog post I was inspired by our assigned presentation, for which I chose to examine the future of traditional media. The subject has...
Continue reading...Intuitive Eating (of Social Media Feeds)
The Context Social media platforms bring about so many opportunities for enhanced global connection and access, and yet I often feel very passive on these platforms....
Continue reading...E – poetry and its cyber branches
“I’m just a squirrel looking for a nut You are a wizard harry I’m a what Glad to believe in #Jesus, He’s the best… From Fresno...
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