Wake up lazy bu**!!! Your phone alarm is vibrating. This is the first thing my brain think about every morning… I wish I were Barbie, so...
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Much a-click about nothing
Everyone can use a good title, be it for a novel, an article or a film. For this blog entry, for example, “Clickbaiting: Typology and Subtextual...
Continue reading...A Day in the Digital: Temporal notions of “worth”
As of writing this blog post, I have caught a bit of a cold. Days like these are marked by an increase of screen time in...
Continue reading...TikTok – A new Source for News?
Why we shouldn’t presume that the web is flat
Regulation of social media platform policy and monopolies
In this article, I explain why stricter and more proactive regulating of social media platforms such as the DSA and DMA are essential, and explain what aspects of this regulation are important.
Continue reading...Toward a different perspective on web-based objects
Introduction What are web-based objects, or what might they be? Since objects are culturally constituted, it is interesting to ask how the increasingly digital and internet-oriented...
Continue reading...[VIDEO] When handwriting is not a thing anymore
“Inside” is a time period defining masterpiece
No one really likes to talk anymore about the time period where Bo Burnham’s “Inside” came out. It came out on May 30th 2021 and was...
Continue reading...How an artist with meme skills took advantage of the music industry
It broke record after record after record on the top music charts and it would be almost impossible to find someone who was alive during 2020...
Continue reading...Podcast — Smart Contact lenses; the VR glasses of the future?
For this podcast I discussed the topic of Smart Contact Lenses. The idea of the smart contact lens started as a concept only showed in Sci-fi...
Continue reading...Data Collection Wrapped Up Nicely
I think most of us have already taken a look, but for those that are unaware, Spotify Wrapped just released again. It is always fun to...
Continue reading...What do Indonesians have to say about FIFA 2022 in Qatar?
I have been observing a certain mass media platform on Instagram, and I feel embarrassed sometimes when I read the comment section. Has Indonesian internet society...
Continue reading...Unnamed Podcast Episode 8: Tactical Social Media, and The Culture of Jamming
Hello and welcome to the eight podcast episode made by Ceiba Dick-Read, Max Alexandre and Gijs Mesman. In this episode, Ceiba is host and continues the...
Continue reading...RPGs and virtual economies – the curious case of Dabloontok
epic video about TikTok and how they created an RPG using the algorithm of the app. also money
Continue reading...We do not forgive. We do not forget. We are legion. We are Fellas.
Within the landscape of the RUssian-Ukrainian conflict, there is one more front at which soldiers fight… twitter. And they fight by posting memes? Come discover NAFO with me!
Continue reading...What is cybersquatting?
The rise of the digital has brought us lots of weird terms, and cybersquatting is one of them. It is derived from the term “squatting” which...
Continue reading...Tumblr “Resurgence”
Almost all of us are aware of the current situation of Twitter. However, if you somehow have not heard of it, I’ll give you some context....
Continue reading...Unnamed Podcast Episode 6: Twitter’s drama and the concept of Mega-Apps
Hello and welcome to the sixth podcast episode made by Ceiba Dick-Read, Max Alexandre and Gijs Mesman. In this episode, Max is fortunately back! He is...
Continue reading...Podcast — TikTok the new Google?
Hi and welcome to this solo podcast by me Isabel your host! After reading the article written by Kalley Huang “For Gen Z, TikTok IS the...
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