Hello to everyone and thank you for being here in Data Addicts Anonymous, My name is Aylin, I have been addicted to data for the past...
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PODCAST: politics and social media.
We’re living in a world of increasing political tensions. How does social media use influence the way we go about political discussion? Do we need to...
Continue reading...Username Choice in eBay: Will it Sell More?
When you want to log in or sign in to any website or digital services, more often than not you are asked to provide a username....
Continue reading...How NOT to act on social media during war
Before starting this writing, I just want to state that this is not a political writing, and I am not picking sides. The examples given are...
Continue reading...Online Arguments Gone Far: War Thunder
How accurate is accurate and how far people are willing to go for accuracy? This is the main question of the phenomenon that I will discuss....
Continue reading...All the (Digital) Censorships I Witnessed, Will It Ever Get Better? (Part II)
Last week I started writing about the censorships that I can recall from the time that I lived in Turkey. I expected to be enough material...
Continue reading...How often do you think about the Roman Empire?
If you would ask me this question, I would reply with the following answer: “I think more often about the question ‘how many times do you...
Continue reading...The Collective Memory of Now: How our Digital presence has shaped what, why and how we remember.
The cultural link made between individualism and memory has been a consistent factor in the history of human thought. Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke even hypothesised that...
Continue reading...All the (Digital) Censorships I Witnessed, Will It Ever Get Better? (Part I)
I am from Turkey, I lived there before moving to the Netherlands. I have never witnessed any other government than the current one. This being said...
Continue reading...Gender Perception in the Case of Teletubbies
The other day I found myself discussing the names of Teletubbies with a friend of mine, as one does on a relaxing Saturday evening. After discussing...
Continue reading...Beyond the Blue Sky: the impact of Microsoft XP’s default background.
What is your digital first memory? For many, it’s hard to pin-point. But when it comes down to the first digital image I can distinctly recall,...
Continue reading...Zepotha – An amazing 80s horror movie or..?
Have any of you seen that cult 80s horror movie called Zepotha? It used to be on some streaming platforms, but then randomly got taken down...
Continue reading...How Lidl-Trek is leading the competition on Social Media?
Once beloved team Trek-Segafredo changed its main name sponsor to Lidl earlier in 2023. This is not the first time for a supermarket branch has become...
Continue reading...Viral Sensations of Aliens – Hoax or Scientific Discovery?
Mexico’s recent findings have sparked a huge online debate. It is about the two ‘alien corpses’ revealed by the Mexican congress on 12 September. For many...
Continue reading...The paradox of cancel-culture – Is it creating more toxicity rather than decreasing it?
Perhaps one of the most important parts of social media is finding the “person” we want to put out there. At the end of the day...
Continue reading...Homunculus Loxodontus: From Art to a Russian Meme
I first came across this odd-looking creature on the album cover of Sand by Balthazar. I did not think much of it apart from it possibly...
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