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Digitization, seniors and corona

By Marcel Beentjes, student French language and culture Are you that family person who helps your grand parents or your uncle who doesn’t really know how...

October 6, 2020 by mbeenham1 COVID19 Digitalization Internet Mental Health Smartphones Social Media Technology 3

Digital Discussions Episode 1

Pilot Episode This the pilot episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. In this...

September 29, 2020 by RandomizedV2 Digital Media Digitalization Freedom of speech History Internet Philosophy Politics 0

Leiden Heritage

One of the benefits of the digital era is that the past is more and more accessible in digital applications. In this blog I want to...

September 26, 2020 by BenvanYperen Artificial Intelligence (AI) Digitalization Digitalized History 2

Who am I? And if yes, how many?

When someone asks you ¨Who are you?”, what do you think of? Do you think of your name? Do you think of the body you are...

September 21, 2020 by kevinsousa Digitalization Media Maesters 1

Is the Evolution of the Digital World Making Us More Dependent?

– Bhumika Gupta A few days ago, my grandmother came to visit me and I showed her the latest gadget in my collection, an Amazon Alexa...

September 14, 2020 by Bhumika Gupta Addiction Digital Media Digitalization 2

You’ll close your eyes to the pictures, the memories and eventually the facts

Since the existence of image-based journalism and the overall rise in various media formats, we have become oversaturated with images. This in itself does not have...

December 20, 2019 by zofiavdk Addiction Art Consumerism Culture DH2019 Digital Media Digitalization Education Environment Facebook Global developments History Internet Journalism Media Media Maesters Media Theory Photography Politics Social Social Media Television 0

‘im here to learn so :))))))’ – The exploitation of an AI Trigger warning for the content of some images

Some people may have heard of the short-lived existence of Microsoft’s AI chatbot called ‘Tay,’ others may have completely missed the event. The latter would come...

December 17, 2019 by zofiavdk Algorithms Art Artificial Intelligence (AI) Culture DH2019 Digital Media Digitalization Education Facebook Freedom of speech Gender Global developments Internet Language Media Media Maesters Politics Programming Queer Smartphones Social Social Media Technology 1

Eye-Tracking: Identifying Criminals to Sexual Orientation

I wanted to end my blog posts with a nice overview of what I have been up to, what my focuses were in the past blogs and...

December 2, 2019 by Sanem Cerit DH2019 Digitalization Digitalized Privacy Technology 0

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....

December 1, 2019 by Hiba Argane Consumerism Culture DH2019 Digitalization Health Media Online Platforms Psychology Self Social Social Media 1

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...

November 27, 2019 by zofiavdk Algorithms Art Culture DH2019 Digital Media Digitalization Education Games History Internet Language Media Media Maesters Online Platforms Technology 0

Cloudy With a Chance of Brains

Waking up dead tired on a dreary Saturday morning is never fun, but even more so in November. The sky is grey and it never seems...

November 25, 2019 by Moos AMS2019 Culture Digital Media Digitalization Digitalized Global developments Health History Internet Media Memory Physics Politics Psychology Science Fiction Self Social Technology Virtual Reality (VR) 0

What Does Our Facebook Profile Say About Us?

There are an immense amount of social media platforms current, probably we don’t even know about some of them. However, Facebook is probably the one that...

November 25, 2019 by Sanem Cerit DH2019 Digitalization Facebook Internet Media Online Platforms Psychology Social Social Media 0

We are all cyborgs (video + blogpost)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9nRolGa42w The video titled ‘We Are All Cyborgs’ is a short introduction and artistic interpretation of Donna Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985). What is a cyborg you...

November 15, 2019 by zofiavdk Algorithms Artificial Intelligence (AI) Culture DH2019 Digital Media Digitalization Digitalized Education Gender Global developments History Language Media Media Maesters Media Theory Politics Psychology Queer Science Fiction Self Social Technology 3

Digitally preserving and reconstructing cultural heritage

In the last couple of years we have seen multiple instances in which cultural heritage was destroyed, either due to intentional destruction by humans or because...

November 11, 2019 by - Archaeology DH2019 Digitalization History Virtual Reality (VR) 1

Video: “Big Brother is us”

Crowdsourcing of Surveillance through Gamification Inspired by the virtual watchers project Burkhard Schafer – Crowdsourcing and cloudsourcing CCTV surveillance https://www.voanews.com/world-news/middle-east-dont-use/facebook-becomes-divisive-bahrain

November 10, 2019 by eva Artificial Intelligence (AI) DH2019 Digitalization Facebook Online Platforms Politics Technology 0

Am I an Otaku? UwU

Growing up I watched a lot of animated series, and I still do because they are amazing. My animation journey thus started early on with baby-books,...