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Entries Tagged as 'History & World Cultures'

Urban Echoes: Graffiti Culture of Athens

July 30th, 2025 · No Comments

“Caught up in the dynamics of the contemporary city, graffiti and street art unfold as a series of dialectical tensions, crisscrossing between legality and illegality, visibility and invisibility, art and action,* ephemerality and elongation.” (Avramidis & Tsilimpounidi, 2016). * ephemerality: the quality of being short-lived or temporary. The first thing I noticed when visiting Athens […]

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Tags: History & World Cultures · Psychology · Tourism · Travel

The Evolution of Social Media, from the Telegraph to Facebook

July 28th, 2025 · No Comments

Using Morsc code over the telegraph If you dig into the past, social media has been around way before Facebook and X, in a simpler form but still allowing remote communication between people. It may have started with the 18th century telegraph invented by Henry, which at first just rang a bell at the other […]

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Tags: Computers · History & World Cultures · Internet · Social Media

Passing It On: Lessons from the Kula Ring

July 22nd, 2025 · No Comments

The other day, one of my friends posted this message in a motorcycle-related WhatsApp group: “We’re a community that’s very generous with knowledge and we often help out with a “come and take it” [spare parts] attitude, and it’s amazing to see and experience that. A lot of this stems from a crappy importer and […]

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Tags: History & World Cultures · Travel