In "Love in the Age of Swipping Left & Right," Feby Ramadhani shares her views regarding social media and its consequences to interpersonal communications. Discussing the subject of love and the popular handheld app, Tinder, Ramadhani describes how we interact via our virtual selves and how it defines our personal relationships today. This essay is part of Whiteboard Journal's Open Column program.
As lyrics are an essential part of many types of music, and hip-hop being one of the genres that puts emphasis on the lyrical content of a song, this Column attempts to introduce some of the elements found in lyricism through hip-hop and and why great verses are things we should appreciate.
On his second entry for our column, Firzie Idris talks about the roots of the chaos in football fans. By revisiting one of the biggest tragedy on football history, the Hillsborough Tragedy, Firzie seeks the resolution of the problem and the opportunity to learn from the history to make a better state of football culture in Indonesia.
On the third episode of her column, Dwiputri shares her perspective of hygiene, with all of her traveling experience she founds that there's some interesting philosophy behind the sanitation of every culture. Including the diverse of western and eastern practice of the hygiene and its relation to their mental outlook.
Having observed the Indonesian National Football Team of 2014's run and subsequent defeat in the World Cup regional qualifiers, Dr. Freek Colombijn talks about the 1938 Indonesian team and how the current national team can take example from its predecessor.
On his first entry in the column, Muhammad Hilmi talks about the disputes of the independent music scene. He wrote down his thought regarding the position of obscure musician in the public, along with the paradox of the independent concept itself in the capitalist world of music industry.
