Virtual Visionaries
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My first memory of the digital
What Tik-Toks’ new trend “working-class aesthetics” is about?
Video: The World of Digital Galleries
Is the solution rational doubt or radical act?
Hamlet said “To be or not to be”, even doubting his own life. He must have felt so lost and meaningless. No one can live doubting...
Continue reading...hyperconnectivity: we were not meant to see so many people
Hyper-connectivity. I read this word in an article online somewhere. Wikipedia says it was coined by Canadian social scientists and it essentially means the connectivity that...
Continue reading...(Video Essay) How Does Get Ready With Me Create an Online Collective Identity?
Hi! Today I examine how social media helps to create an online collective identity with the trend Get Ready With Me. I dive into Identity Theory (IT) used in sociology and the concept of performance introduced by Goffman to showcase how collective identity is created. Join!
Continue reading...Bodies made of Data
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Women have been tracking their menstrual cycles for a long time, even before the help of digital tools. An app,...
Continue reading...Behind the clouds: the ecological footprint of digital transformation
As we have seen blog posts on different areas in our lives being transferred to the digital realm and potentially claiming it as a more sustainable...
Continue reading...Why we Post
Please download to listen https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-have-figured-out-why-people-like-to-take-selfies/
Continue reading...Web Travel Guides
Let me start with a question. When you go to a different city or a different country, do you take a travel guide with you? I...
Continue reading...Virtual Reality and the 59th Venice Biennale
Virtual reality is becoming more and more present in exhibition spaces. Entering a space filled with VR goggles can seem confusing as we are used to...
Continue reading...The Metaverse as utopian version of the real world?
The Metaverse; a concept that I personally wasn’t familiar with before attending this course. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t really think about the...
Continue reading...A Global Life: Digital Nomadism
At 18:00, standing at Central Station, waiting on a delayed train after having wrapped up another workday, drenched from the relentless rain, and seeking solace in...
Continue reading...How celebrities ‘normalize’ normal things?
We all know how big influence celebrities have on society. They can determine what we buy and when we buy it. Basically, they are trend setters. ...
Continue reading...Capture Everything
Why are we so obsessed with taking photos of famous locations or artworks? In this video essay I tried to find an answer to this question,...
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