Digital Cultures

2021-04-20T09:08:55+02:00

In a brilliant article at MIT Technology Review, Tate Ryan-Mosley gives an overview of the history and challenges of face and beauty filters that are popular on social media apps …

2021-03-17T09:16:48+01:00

Apparently rare user names on big social media platform have become so valuable that there is even a marketplace for such names that have been obtained by hackers. As an article at …

2021-03-07T17:51:24+01:00

Some more interesting articles and quotes critical of the newly popular non-fungible tokens (NFT): In a blog post on medium user everest pipkin claims that the “current ecological …

2021-03-07T09:51:57+01:00

Vox published an article about the recent deal between the financial services company Square and the steaming music service Tidal. They note that a possible outcome of the deal may …

2021-02-17T12:57:18+01:00

Ben Thomas on Stratchery.com writes why he considers Tesla a “meme company”: It turned out, though, that TSLA was itself a meme, one about a car company, but also sustainability, …

2020-09-06T11:00:51+02:00

Apparently my site may be described as a bit of a “digital garden”: Welcome to the world of “digital gardens.” These creative reimaginings of blogs have quietly taken nerdier …