Covid-19 has become one of the largest global pandemics since the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009 and has completely changed our ways of living. The way we’re living currently feels a lot like a dystopian world in a film or book however is it possible that some aspects of this are the future for us?Continue reading “Is our Current Approach to Covid-19 the Future of Education?”
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Netflix and Algorithms
Netflix, over the past decade, has quickly become the most popular tv and film streaming services on the internet (with around 139 million subscribers as of February 2020) . Almost anyone you speak with will at least know of it and in most cases use it on a regular basis, but what makes it soContinue reading “Netflix and Algorithms”
Can Emoji’s Really be Considered a Language?
Emoji’s (short for emoticons) have become some of the most used online characters in the past decade. In fact, the ‘Crying Laughing’ face was the ‘Oxford’s word of the year’ in 2015, which really emphasises how much Emoji’s have taken over texting and writing online, especially on socal media. I mean, it’s not even aContinue reading “Can Emoji’s Really be Considered a Language?”
Is the Internet our Closest Friend?
The internet is always taking information from us; it does this through cookies (and I don’t mean the delicious kind). Effectively, cookies are small pieces of data which websites take such as recording the user’s browsing activity. This is done in order to then sell the information to advertisers which allows google and other websitesContinue reading “Is the Internet our Closest Friend?”
Multilingualism and Social Media
One thing I’ve always looked over when scrolling through social media is the amount of different languages online. This is not something that everyone considers, especially since every piece of media we consume is in English. If we open any social media platform, our feeds are usually all in English and so that begs theContinue reading “Multilingualism and Social Media”