Below is our podcast, it was made by Rana Aydemir, Quintus van Suchtelen and Pablo Hernández Flores. In it, we dicuss the place that algorithms hold...
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Digital Footprint And Its Way Back To You
Recently Indonesia has elected a new president and vice-president for the new term. There are, inevitably, many controversies regarding the elected candidate; particularly about our new...
Continue reading...Relatable Sadness and Digital Positivity
When we’re sad, we usually tend to do things that’ll either distract us from this sadness or things that resonate with the feeling, which eventually make...
Continue reading...Algorithms: A Human Tool for the Greatest Good, the Ugliest Evil, and all that Lies in Between
I am once again, sitting in my room, in front of my computer, writing my sixth and final blog. Behind me is my record player, spinning...
Continue reading...Can Social Media Make Us More Charitable?
Sometimes I would like to think that social media can do good. Nowadays information can be reach from anywhere. No matter if you live in Miami...
Continue reading...The Rise and Fall of Hyves
In the lecture this week we discussed the ego online, the rise of social media and the digital performativity that is so prevalent in society today....
Continue reading...Twitch.tv and Tuvalu
Originally this blog post was supposed to be about the physical location of the services I use on a daily basis. But while researching the services...
Continue reading...The Self-Help Genre and its (un)Helpfulness
Self-Help books have been around for centuries, with topics spanning from guiding you to achieve your best self to books detailing on how to be rich....
Continue reading...Do It Yourself, Teach Yourself: Empowering or Overwhelming?
DIY Culture, meaning “Do It Yourself” culture, is a term used to talk about people creating or doing things for themselves rather than relying on paid...
Continue reading...Trump 2016: How Cambridge Analytica breached data privacy ethics to help Trump win.
Introduction At the time of writing this, the 2024 US presidential election is just around the corner. With Trump facing off against Harris, it is a...
Continue reading...Chasing Fame in the Digital Age
Chasing Fame in the Digital Age And boom you’re famous. It happens all the time on the internet nowadays. especially with social media like TikTok. Some...
Continue reading...Stan Culture: Fandoms in the Digital Age
From the moment I’ve first had access to the internet, I’ve continuously been in different fan communities. My pre-teen and teenage years were spent “fangirling” over...
Continue reading...Analog Nostalgia in the Digital Age
In today’s digital society, we are constantly barraged with stimuli, be it our phones, billboards, or a thousand flashing lights enticing us to venture into that...
Continue reading...Digital VS Analog: Music
I am once again back in my room, typing on my computer. As per usual, I have put on a record to listen to as I...
Continue reading...The Chess-boom of 2021
This isn’t just a story about a boring old board game. This is a story about how a worldwide pandemic, a hit Netflix series, a scandal...
Continue reading...The Rise of Ridiculous Beauty Standards
The first thing most of us do right after waking up in the morning is to check our phone. Even if you don’t spend much time...
Continue reading...A Day in The Digital: To Watch or Not To Watch
Have you ever spent an absurd amount of time scrolling through Netflix or other streaming services looking for the perfect series or film to accompany your...
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