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HelpOut: Real Help for Real People

HelpOut: Real Help for Real People

The Crisis at Hand Political upheaval in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia have forced about 464,000 migrants to cross into Europe in 2015, a phenomenon referred to as the “Refugee Crisis” (Park). Numerous tragic events, like the...
By Katharina Lueke on 10/16/15 Comments Off on HelpOut: Real Help for Real People
The CensorSensor – Revealing Localized Censorship through Interactive Maps: A Maptivist Approach to Corporate and Government Censorship

The CensorSensor – Revealing Localized Censorship through Interactive Maps: A Maptivist Approach to Corporate and Government Censorship

Almost all countries filter the Internet to varying degrees; anything from illegal downloading to child pornography and from human rights activities to government criticism. Filtering the Internet has a potential to reinforce the hegemonic power structures and to constrain...
By Pepijn Bierhuizen on 10/16/15 Comments Off on The CensorSensor – Revealing Localized Censorship through Interactive Maps: A Maptivist Approach to Corporate and Government Censorship
The Logout Project

The Logout Project

We might all have felt this way at some point– scrolling through endless posts and photographs of people who seem like they are living “The Life”: getting that promotion they have dreamed of, marrying the most perfect person in...
By Izumi Otsuka on 10/16/15 Comments Off on The Logout Project
Google’s DeepDream: Algorithms on LSD

Google’s DeepDream: Algorithms on LSD

Last July a vast variety of psychedelic strange images flooded the social media. From Edward Munch’s The Scream to Porn and landscapes, surreal hallucinatory depictions of eyes, birds and dogs were generated in every image, recreating almost a LSD...
By Konstantinos Gkotzos on 10/30/15 Comments Off on Google’s DeepDream: Algorithms on LSD
Facebook: New Tools to Help Business go Global

Facebook: New Tools to Help Business go Global

Facebook has launched several new tools for business owners to expand internationally, and a 64-page guide book has been made available for download, providing detailed data analyses on the potential and impact of Facebook marketing, global success stories, and...
By Yanqin Gao on 09/19/16 Comments Off on Facebook: New Tools to Help Business go Global
Inquiring polarisation: re-imagining Youtube as a diplomatic mediator

Inquiring polarisation: re-imagining Youtube as a diplomatic mediator

The extent of political polarisation in large parts of the Western world seems to be such that disparities between one and another point of view is not just difference, but enmity. Hillary Clinton has been ordered to be put...
By Rhubini Kunasegaran on 10/21/16 Comments Off on Inquiring polarisation: re-imagining Youtube as a diplomatic mediator
Remediate The Clock: The Shift from Time to Space

Remediate The Clock: The Shift from Time to Space

Another clock? Despite its name, the Eta Clock isn’t really a clock. Well, it is shaped like a traditional clock- a rectangular piece of wood that nowadays we can probably just see in old movies- and uses clock hands...
By Giovanni Scala on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Remediate The Clock: The Shift from Time to Space
Managing the ‘self’: your DNA online

Managing the ‘self’: your DNA online

How to explore your inner self? You could go to a retreat in Thailand. You could ask your mother about your childhood. Or you could upload your DNA online. Awakens’ Genomic Explorer allows you to dissect your genetics by...
By Linda V. on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Managing the ‘self’: your DNA online
Made in China: The Rise of the SuperBanking App

Made in China: The Rise of the SuperBanking App

Historically, the Western world has made the majority of its biggest and most innovative discoveries through travel and the colonisation of other areas and continents that took our fancy. From tobacco to chocolate, the Silk Road has long since...
By Aisling Crabbe on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Made in China: The Rise of the SuperBanking App
New Google Feed: What about privacy?

New Google Feed: What about privacy?

In July of this year, Google Inc. delivered a new feature for its Google app called Feed.  This addition transforms the front page of the app into a news and information feed, where news articles and suggestions are presented...
By Katliin Soosalu on 09/24/17 Comments Off on New Google Feed: What about privacy?
“Poop tech is the next big thing” – The Age of Quantified Self Tracking

“Poop tech is the next big thing” – The Age of Quantified Self Tracking

In the age of the quantified self we are asked to self-track our every mental and physical move to ensure us that we can live to our fullest potential, even if that means we have to track our poop…...
By Nadine Linn on 09/25/17 Comments Off on “Poop tech is the next big thing” – The Age of Quantified Self Tracking
iClarify: About The Control and Understanding of Our Privacy.

iClarify: About The Control and Understanding of Our Privacy.

iClarify: About The Control and Understanding of Our Privacy.   “I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS AGREEMENT, AND I ACCEPT AND AGREE TO ALL OF ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS”   This might be one of the biggest lies on...
By Ilja van de Rhoer on 10/24/17 Comments Off on iClarify: About The Control and Understanding of Our Privacy.
Make voting safe again? A selection and as-sessment of contemporary technologies in relation to their integration with i-Voting

Make voting safe again? A selection and as-sessment of contemporary technologies in relation to their integration with i-Voting

By conducting an academic literature review along with an empirical analysis of the Estonian i-Voting system, our aim was to identify weaknesses in the i-Voting infrastructure, and assess whether biometric technologies can be implemented to help alleviate issues and...
By Mandy Theel on 10/25/17 Comments Off on Make voting safe again? A selection and as-sessment of contemporary technologies in relation to their integration with i-Voting
Is IGTV set to tilt our perception of online videos from horizontal to vertical?

Is IGTV set to tilt our perception of online videos from horizontal to vertical?

IGTV is a new feature within the main Instagram app, as well as a new standalone app of its own, dedicated to the sharing of long-form vertical videos. What does this mean for online video-sharing platforms, like YouTube? Are...
By Lucas Prado Amaral on 09/23/18 Comments Off on Is IGTV set to tilt our perception of online videos from horizontal to vertical?
Spare Change Investment: Saving for the Future or Selling Out Today?

Spare Change Investment: Saving for the Future or Selling Out Today?

Millennials are a new target market. Personal growth, independence, and self-improvement are trends especially prominent with generation Y and Z. Right in tune, finances are following suit with budget, mobile payment and now investment apps like Acorns and Moneybox....
By Vanessa Richter on 09/23/18 Comments Off on Spare Change Investment: Saving for the Future or Selling Out Today?
Selling Sexualities: The ethical implications of Grindr’s new advertising tool

Selling Sexualities: The ethical implications of Grindr’s new advertising tool

The gay dating app Grindr is trying to reinvent itself. In a mission to leave behind its image as a hookup platform, Grindr Inc. has launched several new projects, including the LGBT-themed magazine INTO, anti-discrimination campaign Kindr, and the...
By Max Rogall on 09/23/18 Comments Off on Selling Sexualities: The ethical implications of Grindr’s new advertising tool
Make-Up Metrics: The Downfall of the Beauty Community on Youtube?

Make-Up Metrics: The Downfall of the Beauty Community on Youtube?

Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has been host to an ever-expanding community of people looking to showcase their artistic and creative ideas on the platform. With over a billion hours of videos watched every day and with tools available...
By Erika Grimes on 09/23/18 Comments Off on Make-Up Metrics: The Downfall of the Beauty Community on Youtube?
Extended Browsing, Plugged-In Activism

Extended Browsing, Plugged-In Activism

“It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. … And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t” (“I Am Part”). The anonymous...
By Tiancheng Cao on 09/23/18 Comments Off on Extended Browsing, Plugged-In Activism

Are we being mollycoddled by our phones; or are usage accountability measures a necessary intervention?

In June 2018, Apple announced that functions on their latest iOS update were intended  ‘to help customers understand and take control of the time they spend interacting with their iOS devices’(Apple, 2018). In the same month, Google announced its...
By Joe Burkinshaw on 09/24/18 Comments Off on Are we being mollycoddled by our phones; or are usage accountability measures a necessary intervention?
Civil: The Savior of Journalism or Just Another Blockchain Startup?

Civil: The Savior of Journalism or Just Another Blockchain Startup?

Civil wants to save quality journalism using digital tokens and blockchain. Would it foment a revolution in the industry of journalism, or is it just another product of the entrepreneurial solutionism trying to resolve a complicated situation by a simple...
By Reza Mohammadi on 09/23/18 Comments Off on Civil: The Savior of Journalism or Just Another Blockchain Startup?
“Hidden Cost”: Social Commerce Practices and the Collaboration between Snapchat and Amazon

“Hidden Cost”: Social Commerce Practices and the Collaboration between Snapchat and Amazon

In an era when S-commerce (social commerce) is dominating digital environments, social media platforms use more and more tools to achieve this combination of commercial and social activities. Like Instagram and Pinterest, now Snapchat jumped onto this trend and...
By Aikaterini Mniestri on 10/19/18 Comments Off on “Hidden Cost”: Social Commerce Practices and the Collaboration between Snapchat and Amazon
You Won’t Believe What These Young Liberal Students Did Their Project On

You Won’t Believe What These Young Liberal Students Did Their Project On

Fake news When Pheidippides burst into the Greek assembly to exclaim ‘nenikēkamen’, after running from the battle of Marathon to Athens where the Greeks had just conquered the Persians, his death gave birth to the concept of the marathon...
By Elise van der Linde on 10/24/18 Comments Off on You Won’t Believe What These Young Liberal Students Did Their Project On
Cookie Monster: building awareness around free labour and data-exploitation

Cookie Monster: building awareness around free labour and data-exploitation

  Introduction Users that roam the European Internet on a daily basis will have come across them countless of times. Each time a new website is visited it pops up in the middle of the screen or it rests...
By Aranka Kooi on 10/24/18 Comments Off on Cookie Monster: building awareness around free labour and data-exploitation
Fooling the deepfakes: How we can outsmart A.I. in pursuit of the truth

Fooling the deepfakes: How we can outsmart A.I. in pursuit of the truth

From innocuous face-swapping tools to perfectly realistic doctored footage of global leaders and personalities: Deepfake technology makes it all possible. The applications of this technology are seemingly endless, and the rate at which it is developing is mind-boggling, to...
By Martijn van Schip on 09/23/19 Comments Off on Fooling the deepfakes: How we can outsmart A.I. in pursuit of the truth