Last night I had the pleasure of watching the movie Heretic and it was nothing short of brilliant (no, seriously, I sobbed at the end). As...
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A Day in The Digital: To Watch or Not To Watch
Have you ever spent an absurd amount of time scrolling through Netflix or other streaming services looking for the perfect series or film to accompany your...
Continue reading...Netflix’s “Sex Education”: The Role of TV Series in Addressing Intimacy
Is it possible to create a TV series that talks about mental health, identity, and sexuality among young people, all while offering an educational perspective? And...
Continue reading...Rainbows and Role Models: Why Inclusive Children’s Media Matters
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Gender Perception in the Case of Teletubbies
The other day I found myself discussing the names of Teletubbies with a friend of mine, as one does on a relaxing Saturday evening. After discussing...
Continue reading...Podcast – Core memories: CDs & Eurovision
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Paradise Hills
Paradise Hills is a film by director Alice Waddington and premiered 26 January 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival. When I watched this film back in...
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During the lecture on cyborgs, a TV series I had not thought about in a while crossed my mind. It’s called Westworld. It premiered in 2016...
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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...How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Taught Me English
I remember a few years back asking my dad a question that had just come to me in that moment. “When did you know that I...
Continue reading...Movies, memories and more words starting with ‘M’
For most people it is impossible to remember what the first movie was they ever saw. Yes, your parents could probably tell you but cast your...
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Why I Keep Up With the Kardashians
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Is Covid-19 going to change football?
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Podcast: #DigitalOptimists with Stefan Buijsman (Artificial Intelligence Art Episode)
Stefan and I are discussing whether Artificial Intelligence can be considered a threat to artists and the art world, deep fakes and whether they will be...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...Will traditional media cease to exist?
For this last blog post I was inspired by our assigned presentation, for which I chose to examine the future of traditional media. The subject has...
Continue reading...Disney’s Struggle: Disclaimers and Diversity
For my last blog, I decided to direct my attention to an interesting current phenomenon: warnings and disclaimers. ‘Political correctness’ Over the last couple of years,...
Continue reading...Fear of the Machines: Hollywood’s portrayal of A.Is
Last Friday I went to the cinema in the first time in forever, for a viewing of the most recent Terminator movie. As you probably know,...
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