What is your digital first memory? For many, it’s hard to pin-point. But when it comes down to the first digital image I can distinctly recall,...
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The Age of Influencers: Why Are We So Obsessed with Them?
Have you ever thought – who is an “influencer”? For example, a famous celebrity, aka businesswoman and media persona, Kylie Jenner shares some posts on Instagram and, suddenly, thousands admire her and are in a rush to follow her lead. Why?
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Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about how influencers subconsciously play such an important role in our lives and are convincing us into buying...
Continue reading...My first digital steps
Digital technology caught me young. I think I was about 5 years old and still a big Dora fan. I remember sitting in front of our...
Continue reading...Is there a Digital God?
Who’s got the power? Initially, I wanted to write about personalised ads and discuss whether they are good or bad. Briefly, companies collect personal data no...
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Zepotha – An amazing 80s horror movie or..?
Have any of you seen that cult 80s horror movie called Zepotha? It used to be on some streaming platforms, but then randomly got taken down...
Continue reading...An ode to my first WiFi-connected device
I loved it. I loved all of it: the color, the stylus that came with it, the bag I had bought for it to take it...
Continue reading...Scrolling away the doom: the destruction of human happiness
Browsing the web as means of passing time has been around for some time, yet active, mindless scrolling, that consumes quite a lot of our time,...
Continue reading...How Lidl-Trek is leading the competition on Social Media?
Once beloved team Trek-Segafredo changed its main name sponsor to Lidl earlier in 2023. This is not the first time for a supermarket branch has become...
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David Canada and Goliath Zuckerberg
In the boring country where I come from, sometimes, things happen. On 15 June 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government passed Bill C-18, the long...
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Instagram reels as motivation
A Day On The Digital Plantation
by Lorenzo Holder III THE VALUE OF SKIN TONE That you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover is an old adage that should be familiar...
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Imagination is the power. Ellen Sheidlin When Yuriy Dud, a Russian journalist, asks Ellen Sheidlin “What is power?” at the end of a 2-hour long interview, she...
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Beyond the Firewall: Tricksters and Players
Recently, I had to wake my predator instinct up and go on a house hunt to find a place to live in Leiden. No traditional method...
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Viral Sensations of Aliens – Hoax or Scientific Discovery?
Mexico’s recent findings have sparked a huge online debate. It is about the two ‘alien corpses’ revealed by the Mexican congress on 12 September. For many...
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