**flashback to 2005, Malaysia** When I was in my early teens, my mom would yell (yes, yell!) at me for spending too much time on the computer. Specifically, MSN Messenger. So I would turn off the computer to avoid her from further yelling at me, go down to the living room and join her to watch some TV shows. I just thought…
Let’s take a trip in the way-back machine. A few years back, I just painted my room, removing the stained white wall and replacing it with a lovely green and copper. Yet, I was still in the process of decluttering the mess teenage me left few-years ago me. Including the dreaded drawers underneath my bed, filled with junk. Somehow, digital media drew…
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– Bhumika Gupta A few days ago, my grandmother came to visit me and I showed her the latest gadget in my collection, an Amazon Alexa Echo Dot. This nifty little device can do anything for you, from playing music, to fetching the news headlines, to even telling you jokes. My grandmother, a sixty-something-year-old lady, was amazed by this technology. She could…
And here we are: the last blogpost of my little journey into the field of language published in this semester. You are finally released! Almost!I would like to use this last post to provide you with a short recap and a reflection what we have explored during the last weeks. I was trying to raise your awareness but also interest in the…
The digital era has brought forward an enormous change within society, a change of how we use tools, how we share and how we learn. It has primarily shifted the focus from textual to visual aka we are bombarded and confronted with images ALL THE TIME. As a result, I started thinking of the effects these images can have, especially for my…
On my way to Leiden I witnessed a conversation that literally made the hairs in my neck stand up, much akin to a pissed off cat. I was sitting in the train on a Tuesday afternoon, minding my own business as you do in a crowded train, when two people sat down in the seats across from me. At first I ignored…
The other day I went shopping in a garden centre. You know, one of those very large ones that require a map to navigate. Why I was there is of no importance; the fact of the matter is that I was there, and that I got lost. In my own –very human- hubris, I had decided to not follow the clearly laid…
Podcast by Froy & Leon We meant to do a casual podcast that discusses ‘dystopian like’ developments in technology. Watch in full screen if you want to see the articles being discussed.
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