Audio Transcript Disclaimer: this is our first podcast ever so beware of a lot of stopwords and awkward phrasing. To make this podcast more easily understandable and accessible,...
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FLA(c)K Podcast episode 1: webtoon and Webtoon – part 1
Audio Transcript Disclaimer: this is our first podcast ever so beware of a lot of stopwords and awkward phrasing. To make this podcast more easily understandable...
Continue reading...A Look Into Japan’s Nightlife Culture
What are the things that come to mind when you think about Japan? Most people I’ve spoken to mention things like the cleanliness, politeness, and overall...
Continue reading...China’s game censorship and fragile national pride
I’m sure those of you who play video games regularly and are also interested in various humanities disciplines have noticed that video games can’t teach you...
Continue reading...The effects of modern tech company conglomeration
Company conglomeration is nothing new, but in the field of technology it has huge effects that we have not seen before. When a company starts to...
Continue reading...Apple and Ports, A Shaky Relationship
Remember the announcement of the iPhone 7? Replacing the flagship iPhone 6 series, it boasted a better performance, a nicer screen, and more resistance to water,...
Continue reading...Death Stranding: Why We Connect?
Death Stranding is an open-world walking simulator with action elements, released in November 2019 by the Kojima Productions of the legendary game producer Hideo Kojima. The...
Continue reading...Dries Depoorter: privacy piracy?
After reading an interview with Belgian concept artist Dries Depoorter, I am surprised part of his portfolio has not been presented on this website yet, so...
Continue reading...“Burn Before Reading” How WeChat Censors Pictures and Videos
According to a study published by Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, Canada, WeChat – the largest social platform in China with...
Continue reading...Walking Simulators: Interactive Storytelling in Video Games
Before video games were a widespread form of entertainment, stories usually only came from movies and books. Even when they did start to pick up steam...
Continue reading...Two sides of the same coin: a very wonky sentiment analysis of private accounts
The week before midterms, the writing prompt was “what is your favourite online identity?”. Of course, I’ll act somewhat differently online. When you have a whole...
Continue reading...Armchair Activism or the lazy protest
Recently my Instagram Feed has been filled with reposts of all kinds of posts about the current protests in Iran. I am sure most of you...
Continue reading...Want to earn? Join the platform
Traditionally, creators such as artists, authors and designers have leaned on large institutions to allow them to publish their work and monetise it. But if you’re sure that your work does have enough interested customers to sell well, these days there are plenty of alternate ways for you to monetise your work.
Continue reading...‘Hey Siri, where are you from?’
Siri seems always to know everything about you and anything else, but what do you know about Siri? Here is a short video to illustrate where...
Continue reading...My phone got stolen
Did it ever happen to you that your phone got stolen? Well, it happened to me recently, on the 14th of October, on a Friday to...
Continue reading...Obsidian as a personal knowledge base
Recently Obsidian, an app I have been using since 2020 had its 1.0 release. Using this app has changed the way I study, in a good...
Continue reading...“Commie Rap”
I developed a sentiment of rebellion against the propaganda at a very early age, not because I was a genius who realized the nature of the...
Continue reading...4000 US Dollars
Bayonetta 3, a sequel in the popular Bayonetta videogame series, is set to launch on October 28th. This is great news for any fans of the...
Continue reading...Politics of the Digital: The Ultimate Influencer
In this video, I talk about a big-picture perspective on the digital by looking at politics. Namely, I cover the influence of the United States and...
Continue reading...The day Google Translate stopped to suck
After thinking a long while about my role online, I came to the conclusion that I am mostly an avid translator of what I consume on...
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