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01 May

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2280592833_9d8943037dSorry Kitty is lead singer of the K-pop band Saccharine. Her nickname is a blend of Super Junior's 2009 hit Sorry, Sorry and the still popular cartoon Hello Kitty, and influenced by the post-ironic cat-meme era she was born into. She earned it for her allegedly sad expression as a child, but later made it her legal name as a provocative statement of Asian pride. While Korean women in the entertainment industry undergo canthoplasties and other plastic surgeries to look “less Asian”, Sorry embraces her Asian features and is unknowingly signaling a new trend that will unfold after her career takes off in 2030. Sorry grows up as an only child of a Korean PR professional / Tigermother and a British DJ / sound engineer who moved to Korea to work as an English teacher when the job market dried up in Europe.

26 Nov

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Do As I Say, Not As I Do? Pew Research is one of my main, probably the main go-to source for generational statistics. But for once I am a little disappointed. The culprit is their recent study "Parents Concerned About Teens' Online Activities and Privacy." The title captures it all. By focusing only on young people's own activities they get only a partial picture of all that threaten the privacy of minors today, which in turn distorts the narrative of the online privacy debate.

12 Apr

Posted at 18:16h in Gaming by
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Virtual reality, or immersive video games, are quickly becoming the "who-cares-which-reality" reality. Following what seems to be a new book trend about the beneficial social effect of gaming, authors Jeremy Bailenson and Jim Blasocovich's Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of...

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