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Bang With Friends – are the ‘hook up’ sites the future of dating?

By Annika Kuyper and Jakub Dutka Bang With Friends is a casual sex app, launched in January 2013. How does it work? It is dead simple. The app connects to your Facebook account and downloads your friends list. Subsequently,...

By Jakub Dutka on 10/07/13 Comments Off

How Facebook made my Boyfriend Cry: About Social Networks and Worst-Case Scenarios

Last monday, just after the first lecture, I went home sick. Not that much of a problem, thank God, but I forgot to ask about the assignment at all. Luckily, Geert was so kind as to send me an...

By Roos van Tongerloo on 10/04/11 1

‘She was loved, and she loved back’

I will never forget the look in Ladan’s eyes as she grabbed my Tamagotchi, without asking, and brutally pressed all the buttons at the same time. ‘Well, I really don’t get this stupid thing. It’s just stupid.’, she said,...

By Roos van Tongerloo on 09/14/11 2

The Online Love Search: cash, credit or no love?

“Register now and find the man of your heart’s desire within less than half an hour” or “ Everyone deserves a loving other half, take our personality test and find your match ” or “ Looking for the right...

By ibtisam omer on 05/07/11 1

I heart Illustrator

My first experience with Inkscape Ever since I started Art Academy in 2000 I use Adobe’s vector graphics software program Illustrator to create logo’s, cards, brochures, posters and other kinds of hard-copy. But although I find it a great...

By Lotte Woerde on 10/24/10 Comments Off

Eskil Steenberg’s Labour of Love

In a media landscape dominated by online collaboration, DIY content and crowdsourcing, it may seem like the notion of the Renaissance artist-savant really does belong to an age long since passed. The idea that an artist must have a...

By Laurent Hubeek on 09/11/10 1