If you asked me about my earliest memory in the digital world, it probably would have to be either my grandma playing Mah-jong on that really...
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The Digital Dark Age – Digital History, Burning like the Library of Alexandria
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Almost all of us are aware of the current situation of Twitter. However, if you somehow have not heard of it, I’ll give you some context....
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Free Speech!! Except… You Don’t – The Changes on Twitter and the Meaning of Free Speech
We probably all have heard it… Elon Musk finally bought Twitter. How bad can it be?! Well… As someone who uses Twitter quite a lot (don’t...
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The Queen’s Online Death
‘Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone’ begins W.H. Auden’s Funeral Blues, in which he asks that the noise of the world not intrude on...
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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....
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In June 2019, YouTube temporarily suspended the account of the archive of Alkmaar. Their reason? The archive uploaded historical footage on their account, including a few...
Continue reading...Good Morning & Good Night: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Little Pep Talks” for the Twittersphere
The endless noise of the Twitter timeline can be a bit much, to say the least. From the latest inane statement of a world leader (these...
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