The 49-minute documentary, broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK, is called The Great Amazon Heist. It seems to make a lot of noise in that...
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Digital Display, Artistic Personalities on the Internet
Artistic Persona How much does an artistic Instagram profile have in common with the actual person standing behind it? As I wrote about digital identities in...
Continue reading...Running away from the paparazzi
POV: You became an “A-list” celebrity, so now it is inevitable that you will be followed around by paparazzi. You can try to go on a...
Continue reading...How NOT to act on social media during war
Before starting this writing, I just want to state that this is not a political writing, and I am not picking sides. The examples given are...
Continue reading...Online Arguments Gone Far: War Thunder
How accurate is accurate and how far people are willing to go for accuracy? This is the main question of the phenomenon that I will discuss....
Continue reading...Digital Stress and Burnout: Recognizing and Coping with Information Overload
Has it ever happened to you that you spent too much time online, maybe kept scrolling on a social media app or watching meaningless videos, and...
Continue reading...The shadow side of social media
What happens in the shadows is hard to see in real life, and so it is online. Everything that happens there stays hidden – not for...
Continue reading...The e-waste Heaven
This is a follow-up to my last blog post. We were talking about Apple Inc, the world’s largest company by a number of criteria according to...
Continue reading...Identity in Flux: Navigating the Waters of the Digital
Certainly, as digital natives, it is likely that we’ve all participated in the practice of investigating our friend’s online profiles, perhaps seeking updates about their relationship...
Continue reading...How Tik-Tok Contributed to the Renaissance of ABBA.
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[VIDEO] Artistic outcomes of my snapshot archive
This video explores the importance of phone camera photographs in my creative process. I show how collected digital images can be used as readymade material in...
Continue reading...All the (Digital) Censorships I Witnessed, Will It Ever Get Better? (Part II)
Last week I started writing about the censorships that I can recall from the time that I lived in Turkey. I expected to be enough material...
Continue reading...Digital footprints
When I think of footprints, I think of the beach. I picture a footprint in sand. It will be there for a little while. As soon...
Continue reading...How often do you think about the Roman Empire?
If you would ask me this question, I would reply with the following answer: “I think more often about the question ‘how many times do you...
Continue reading...The Rise of Deepfakes: Navigating a World of Altered Realities
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The un-unscrewable screw
This is a picture of the underside of my Apple 2015 MacBook Pro. You can see that the head of the screw has a strange 5-pointed...
Continue reading...Why is autocorrect so annoying sometimes?
Nowadays, in almost every product of writing technology it’s normal to have autocorrect. As of right now while I’m writing this blog on WordPress, when I...
Continue reading...The Collective Memory of Now: How our Digital presence has shaped what, why and how we remember.
The cultural link made between individualism and memory has been a consistent factor in the history of human thought. Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke even hypothesised that...
Continue reading...PODCAST: “Behind closed doors”
Have you ever scrolled through someone’s profile and ended up on some random person’s profile feeling like you’ve known them for some time? If the answer...
Continue reading...Fun Game: A Run through Wikipedia
Every Saturday I go to scouting. People often ask what scouts do. Well, the fun thing is that we do something different every week. Sometimes we...
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