Digital Media
The societal issues adressed in WALL-E
Today I want to discuss Disney’s iconic movie WALL-E from 2008 and the societal issues it addresses. I hadn’t seen the movie for a very long...
Continue reading...The Digital Euro
“Blink with two eyes, and pay the price” Imagine this: you’re driving your car to France for a holiday and you stop for gas. Remarkably, your...
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ART IS MATH IS ART: Data as Medium
With the rise of graphic design, NFTs, AI technology, and many more, it appears that the art world is inevitably becoming engulfed by the theme of...
Continue reading...Digital Media, what on earth does it mean?
What’s this about? I recently enrolled in the course ‘Digital media, culture and society’ and, since I am a very well prepared student who does research...
Continue reading...Rumours about Upcoming Video Games – False Hope or a Way to Hype Games Up?
How gender data gaps affect women
Hello wonderful people, thanks for checking out my video. In it, I take a quick look at why data gaps come to be, what forms they...
Continue reading...Sepia Stereotype
Have you ever been watching a film made by a company in the United States that displays all other countries as ‘third-world’ through adding a yellow/orange...
Continue reading...Echo-chambers and Technological Group Think: The Case For Platform Socialism
Having previously considered social media marketing as a potential career path for myself, I had once sworn myself to the world of marketing analytics until I...
Continue reading...My digital journey
Where did I come from and where will I go? It wasn’t until I went to high school that I got my first smartphone and I...
Continue reading...Digital Relationships (they don’t only come romantic)
In the digital world we live in, surely most of us have experience with keeping in touch between countries. Although the technology at our disposal makes it drastically easier to contact friends and loved ones in different countries, does it come close to what real-life physical interaction can give us?
Continue reading...Movie Mania (pt. 2): The Social Network
Here it is, the last podcast from the Unnur and Grace duo. In our final podcast, we take a deep dive into the award-winning film The...
Continue reading...The new snake oil marketplace
Today I read a news article about Dutch influencer Donny Roelvink who apologized for recommending a cosmetic medical procedure. He had had porcelain plates added to...
Continue reading...Gold Farming in World of Warcraft
In one of my courses, we learned about the different methods that some users take in racially profiling other players in the online game World of...
Continue reading...Accessibility on Social Media
There has been a movement on social media to make the platforms more accessible toward people with vision and hearing impairments – such as introducing closed...
Continue reading...Online Child Grooming – TW
I’m pretty sure everyone has shuddered at the thought of their (future) children being on social media at one point or another. It’s not because we...
Continue reading...Help! I am a digital hoarder
Let’s talk about stuff. LOADS of stuff!Well…what is that stuff I’m talking about then? Here, I mean in particular the things that we collect and store...
Continue reading...Dungeons and Dragons and Digital spaces
What is Dungeons and Dragons? Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D for short, is a tabletop RPG where the core is storytelling and the goal is having...
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