Virtual Visionaries
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...
Continue reading...Filtered Reality: How Instagram Fuels Body Image Insecurities
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...
Continue reading...Art in the Age of Social Media
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...
Continue reading...The Evolution of Instagram: Artistic Visual Blogging
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...
Continue reading...Identities Formed by Digital Communication
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...
Continue reading...The versatility of maps in the digital world
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...
Continue reading...The paradox of cancel-culture – Is it creating more toxicity rather than decreasing it?
Perhaps one of the most important parts of social media is finding the “person” we want to put out there. At the end of the day...
Continue reading...Dating in the age of Tinder
Relationships don’t look as they used to before. It is no longer a standard to get a girl flowers and take her dancing. Going out for...
Continue reading...Granny’s Baby Steps Online
Never too old to learn. My grandmother is almost 80 years old. Still, she is full of energy. She goes for a walk or a bike...
Continue reading...Much a-click about nothing
Everyone can use a good title, be it for a novel, an article or a film. For this blog entry, for example, “Clickbaiting: Typology and Subtextual...
Continue reading...NFTs: Fad or the Future of Art?
The art world is no stranger to the increasingly rapid, and brutal, trend cycles of the digital age. Nonetheless, the desire to stick to our centuries...
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