by Salem Saberhagen and Hamster N – Netflix Netflix is the favourite website of many, many people. Films, TV series and documentaries are only one mouse click away. It is that easy. Some might argue that it is too easy, because it makes it harder to stay away from Frozen and House of Cards and…
The Dangers of Being Online – Tips and Tricks by UCR’s own ICT-desk
By Stan Faver Vendaged and Ine Roos Mast-Bjall The Internet: It is Everywhere Over 3 billion people in the world have access to the Internet. To put this in perspective, at the start of the 1960s, there were only about 3 billion people alive. In general it is great to have such a vast…
Teaching about a whole new world: the Internet
by King Peter The Just & Little Miss Sunshine How do you teach 11 year olds about the web? Do they know what cookies are? Are they on Facebook? Is online gaming still the hype? And how do you go about a project with a group of people who cannot be part of the UCR…
Saving Ryan’s Privates
By Zelda Have you ever sent someone a nude picture of yourself? Perhaps to your significant other, a stranger online, or maybe a so-called ‘friend with benefits’? With the arrival of applications like Snapchat, where one can send and receive photos that can only be viewed for some seconds before being deleted, the practice of…
The Media Smokescreen in Baltimore
By Mr. Abuelito The United States has been on fire recently. After several police incidents throughout the country, from Miami to Ferguson, Baltimore is America’s latest inferno. The city is portrayed in the media as a place riddled by riots and excessive police enforcement, as African Americans are protesting against the racial segregation that still…
All must be known
By William Peterson “Okay. Now everything you had on your other phone and on your hard drive is accessible here on the tablet and on your new phone, but it’s also backed up in the cloud and on our servers. Your music, your photos, your messages, your data. It can never be lost. You lose…
You can evict a building, but you cannot evict the movement: A report from the ground
By Anna Ziya Geerling Pictures are by Anna Ziya Geerling © In the weekend of 11 and 12 April, the New University movement (in Dutch ‘De Nieuwe Universiteit’/DNU) of Amsterdam had planned a ‘Festival of Science and Humanities.’ Many lectures by interesting speakers such as Ewald Engelen as well as workshops and discussion sessions made…
Ajax In Iraq: The Brave Choice of THEATRA’s Spring Play
By Eden van der Moere After 12 weeks of rehearsing, practicing, working and studying lines, THEATRA is ready to present its newest masterpiece. In this long-awaited Spring Play, two worlds collide. Based on a piece by Ellen McLaughlin, the play is a mixture of Sophocles classic tragedy Ajax and the modern-day war in Iraq. Set…
Media Literacy Alphabet – Part I
by Salem Saberhagen and Hamster A – Anonymous Can anyone on the Internet be anonymous? We can try, by making our accounts private and shielding our accounts – but how anonymous are you really? And how effective is this shield really? Google your own name, for instance, and find out how anonymous you actually are….