Recently I have been thinking a lot about the emphasis of modern society on self-exploration. To me, it seems like there is this expectation of knowing...
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Halloween Special: Slender Man and Spreading Horror Stories in the Virtual Realm
Get ready to shiver and prepare yourself for the horrors the internet can deliver: it’s time to dive into the paranormal world of Creepypastas. Horror stories such...
Continue reading...Phones’ Ears are Flapping
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...
Continue reading...Marrying the Digital
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,...
Continue reading...How the Digital brings us closer to each other, but sometimes a bit too close
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...Social Media, Capitalism and Performance: ranting about living in a post-digital age
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...
Continue reading...Online VS In life, a personal perspective
Looking back the last year and a half, the importance of being able to stay connected online is more prevalent than ever. The toll of staying...
Continue reading...Lil Miquela: The Rise of the CGI Influencer
Language Contact in Digital Environments
My First Encounter with a Digital Community
League of Legends: The Worst and The Best in one place Online communities can be described the best as groups of people gathering in digital areas....
Continue reading...Blue check marks
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...
Continue reading...Digital Art: Expression Beyond Capability
“Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries…” – Neville Brody Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to visit NXT Museum in Amsterdam,...
Continue reading...Fake Reviews in e-commerce
Inspired by “Is it My Opinion?”, “The Ease of Online Shopping” – blogs from fellow students – and a New York Times article, I have decided...
Continue reading...Digital Communities: A Pandemic Era Lifeline
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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Work in progress- EP. 3: The Nostalgia Strikes Back
In this weeks episode of Work in progress, we talk everything lo-fi. We discuss some of our favourite lo-fi artists and songs, the general lo-fi aesthetic...
Continue reading...Can you hear it? What? Exactly.
The power of sound. Have we unlearned to live in stillness? While going downstairs to grab my laundry the other day, I had to take our...
Continue reading...The Age of Business on Instagram
We all are familiar with Instagram and using it to post our life’s highlights to the quirky pictures or scroll through memes and cat pics. But...
Continue reading...The Kaltura Experience
In the last months and the previous semester I have become acquainted with on-line classes. In this blog I want to share some of my experiences...
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