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The Digital Database and How It Affects Our Place in Society
One of the largest contributing factors in the evolution of society within the digital age is the use of digital databases and archives. The Internet, seen...
Continue reading...“Didn’t you know? I posted it on Facebook!”
New Media, New Hope?
Good Morning & Good Night: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Little Pep Talks” for the Twittersphere
The endless noise of the Twitter timeline can be a bit much, to say the least. From the latest inane statement of a world leader (these...
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Influence in the Age of Saturation
“It’s time for me – and you – to take a lesson from the big brands…We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be...
Continue reading...My last prediction
For my last blog I want to make another prediction, with the simple reason that I came up with multiple predictions while preparing my presentation. With...
Continue reading...Motivations
In my final blog post, I will be discussing motivations. What are some of peoples’ motivations in consuming digital media? People use digital media for various...
Continue reading...Exploring diversity in video games
Digitalisation has created incredible and powerful dimensions in which human behaviours and cultural interpretations can be influenced and modified, but also innovative methods, through which the...
Continue reading...Humanity through VR
“It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I’ve never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people’s perception of...
Continue reading...Human emotions in virtual worlds
“How can we then say that something exists and at the same time is not real?” (Brey, 2014) Virtual enviroments are really powerful. Through them, humans can...
Continue reading...A wave of digital icons
“By the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the digital image […] became a powerful tool for simulating reality that will deceive in future...
Continue reading...Pinocchio and his digital translation
‘Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.’ This was just the beginning of the fairytale of Pinocchio, an animated wooden marionette dreaming of...
Continue reading...Picture Perfect?
Nothing is what it seems. Not only magicians and politicians are experts at hiding the truth, arguably everyone participating on social media is some kind of...
Continue reading...A sense of community in the jungle
“While a mosaic respects the diversity of the elements of which it is made up, it brings them together in an organic unity greater than the sum of its parts.”...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...Digital Media and Nuance
The time I spent on Facebook was mainly used to look at recipe GIFS and memes. The Facebook algorithm however infered I was very fond of...
Continue reading...Don’t tell me, GIF me!
The language of digital communication is changing over time, especially in this last decade, in which many “accessories” have been created so as to make digital...
Continue reading...Digipet 101
Does the term ‘Tamagotchi’ ring a bell? If you were a kid in the 90s you might have owned one. Tamagotchis are virtual pets that you...
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