I like Pokémon Go. It forces me to go outside in order to play and I personally find that a good thing. A side effect of...
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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...
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‘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...
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Computers can do anything or almost anything. They can even read books with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Images from printed pages are converted...
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This week I am going to predict something. When I wrote about Tamagotchis a few weeks back I talked about how companies utilize people’s feelings of...
Continue reading...YouTube; A Career Platform?
During the process of writing blogs I realized that there is so much that we take for granted nowadays. Several pieces of digital structure have been...
Continue reading...Digital Media, A Connection or Separation?
A few days before, I was reading a ‘Webtoon’ (online cartoon) called Collage Journal (대학일기). This particular episode depicted people playing Pokémon Go, which is a...
Continue reading...Getting Fit with Pokémon Go
When it comes to video games there always seem to be these ideas and prejudices flying around that they make you lazy, aggressive, anti-social and more....
Continue reading...The Co-existence of Positive and Negative Aspects of Internet
I remember watching an animation film ‘Wall-E’ a few years ago. To be honest, I do not perfectly remember the full story. This one scene, however,...
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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...
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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...Venice Time Machine
Probably one of the coolest digital historical projects I’ve ever run into is the Venice Time Machine. Before we talk any further, you should watch a...
Continue reading...Travel: get to know the world
Today I would like to do a bit of an excursion from the usual theme I have in my blog. From the second of October till...
Continue reading...Development of Media and Violence
Nowadays, as media exposure to children is reaching its highest peak with the rise of digital media, media violence is often used to attract audiences. As...
Continue reading...The struggle is real: translating Biblical Hebrew (with some digital help)
All over the internet we see websites and tools that can help you learn a language. But most of this is for modern and popular languages...
Continue reading...Solid: The New Web?
There’s a new kid on the block and it’s not just any kid. A few day ago Sir Tim Berners-Lee, one of the co-founders* and also...
Continue reading...Digital Media-Liberation of Cultural Contact
Avengers, Fantastic Beasts, Incredibles. These are the most popular movies in Korea for the past few months. As we can see, the development of media has...
Continue reading...Moon, Rose, Fish
As a linguist, I am fascinated by language. Communicating by combining separate sounds into larger parts and hereby creating something meaningful, with nothing but your voice,...
Continue reading...The future of the historian
May 2 1968 riots broke out in France. Demonstrations started at Paris University and soon spread all over the country, drawing in more students, factory workers,...
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