The Metaverse have recently added legs to the avatars, and it looks less than impressive. The animations are wonky and the avatars are ugly. It’s reflective...
Continue reading...Handling or surviving it?: digital media today
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In the mind of a college student: digital media vs. everyday life
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As people have always done
Hello and welcome to my first blogpost here for digital media, culture and society! Though familiar with blogging through sites such as Tumblr, I now hope...
Continue reading...A Gazillion Blasts from the Past
After a month-long break from quasi-social engagements on Instagram (read: mindless scrolling), I re-downloaded the app today. The reason for that was that a friend showed...
Continue reading...The People Behind Your Safe Feed
After playing the Amazon race, which highlighted Amazon’s poor employee code of conduct and ethics, I was inspired to write my blog about a similar case...
Continue reading...Mental health vs social media: How do reactions to our posts trigger our feelings?
The last two lectures on The Ego Online and The Network Society have inspired this blog post. As the lecture discussed, the idea of the Face...
Continue reading...The beauty of niche Facebook groups
Facebook is slowly dying in the eyes of young people, there is no point in denying that. There certainly are platforms that are far more appealing...
Continue reading...The Battle of the Tech Giants: Illusions of Innovation, Parallel Structures and Capitalism
Every day more than 4,000 new apps are released. Google Play´s monthly new releases exceed 100,000 each month and Apple´s App Store is not far behind....
Continue reading...Algorithms and Conspiracies – Digging a Rabbit Hole
One of my favorite things to do (and what used to serve as a way for me to practice my Dutch) is to watch the news...
Continue reading...Governments using Social Media to Inform the Public (Summary)
Diverse forces impact the world at a consistently increasing speed, obliging us to rethink many concepts and relationships we thought given. Many phenomena are becoming more...
Continue reading...Facebook conspiracy
Conspiracies are something that always interest me. The way people sometimes blatantly belief in something that others don’t just fascinates me. If I’m completely honest, sometimes...
Continue reading...Writing history in the age of Big Data
Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through...
Continue reading...Echo Chambers – The Concequence of a Customizable Online Feed
The advent of digitization and social media has allowed people to customize exactly what they see on their Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc. front page and feeds....
Continue reading...All Is Fair In Love & Cookies
The story of our lifetimes is how intentionally, by design, a number of institutions – both governmental and corporate – realized it was in their mutual...
Continue reading...Privacy? What privacy?
Edward Snowden was working as an employee of the CIA in 2013 when he rose to fame for releasing some highly classified information to the public,...
Continue reading...Social media blunders
Nowadays, people know the ins and outs of social media. Especially children that grew up with iPads, tablets and smartphones have built up some sort of...
Continue reading...Facebook and DISASTER
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Behind the Screens : the Horrors of Facebook
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Dystopian future? The neoliberalisation of privacy in a digital age
The 2018 Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal has led many people to become more conscious about privacy concerns and how much of our personal information is being...
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