By Cecilia Uitermark UCR-Student Cecilia Uitermark decided to write a small column for the Four Freedoms Column Contest. Just because she felt inspired, just because she thought it would be fun to try out. And guess what, she won! With this beautiful little narrative that challenges everyone to think about how to deal with threats…
Degrees of literality
Proposal for a 5-degree indexation for the literality of written text With the rise of digital communication, most notably that via textual conversation, comes an increased uncertainty surrounding the nuanced interpretation of written text. One of the particular sources of unclarity that is exacerbated in digital communication in comparison to direct conversation, is the matter of literality….
Mr. Robot: Don’t ever make decisions when you’re on morphine.
Maaike likes to think she is the go-to person here at UCR when it comes to TV shows, but she might just be gravely mistaken. As someone who previously had way too much free time on his hands, I ended up using a decent part of it in watching TV shows. Everything from the light…