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I was scrolling through TikTok, as I usually do, and sometimes you can come across actually insightful and interesting content. One of those videos came on...
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In trying to decide what to write about this week, my eyes fell over the newly released game from Niantic and Nintendo, Pikmin Bloom. While the...
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Whether it was boredom, intrigue, or peer pressure, many people joined TikTok during the near-global lockdown. No matter the reason why, every single one went on...
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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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Just a few weeks after leaving rehab from a relapse in drug use, the internet was struck with the news that the beloved comedian John Mulaney...
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It is a non negligible fact that text messaging is one of the best tools to improve our lives. We can reach out to whoever we...
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Cooking in The Digital Age and Why My Mom Wouldn’t Share Her Recipes
I believe many of us can relate to this: you move into your first ever own apartment, away from your parents and the town you grow...
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Digital socializing
By Marcel Beentjes In this podcast I will talk about digital socializing in times of the corona virus because I thought this is one of the...
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Episode 8: Parasimp This the eighth episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. As...
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In April of this year, Nintendo unveiled Animal Crossing: New Horizons for its highly popular Switch console. A revamped version of its series, Animal Crossing can...
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With the increase of our time online, the fact that cyberbullying cases have increased should not come as a surprise. But what makes it different than...
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I recently joined a Facebook group where it consists of only females. It’s really quite nice since I get to expand my social circle, and I...
Continue reading...The Question Concerning the Existence of Information Cocoons — Who is Covering our eyes?
“Information Cocoons” — Some of you guys may have heard of this word several times. It is first created by the Harvard scholar Cass R. Sunstein...
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