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Slavic Union is on the rise in Eastern Europe

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

22/03/2019

20 minutes to read

Much of the information about Alt-Right nowadays comes from 'the West'. This is not very accurate, because the movement is strong and growing in Eastern Europe. This article describes the concept of Slavia and why we should know about it.

Nordic Theory and Breivik's ideal society

Paper

Sarah-Maria Geradin

Jie Lin

Eveline Braat

05/11/2018

9 minutes to read

People have all sorts of ideas about what ‘the ideal society’ should or could be. Anders Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people in 2011, also had an ideal society in mind and wrote it down in his manifesto. Who were his sources?

Importance of social media in the globalized internet age

Trump, social media and the first Twitter-based Presidency

Article

Jordan Hollinger

07/05/2018

12 minutes to read

Trump's social media presence is the most salient factor behind his success in the recent presidential election. Trump's usage of internet and social media to connect with his supporters is much more successful than traditional forms of media.

Emma Watson on Framing

Column

Jan Blommaert

21/05/2019

6 minutes to read

Emma Watson's Instagram reaction to the Alabama abortion bill accurately exposes the work of framing in public debates, and shows an educational use of social media.

Babylon's Burning

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The battle of 'The System Kills Us' against Valeri Simeonov

Article

Aleksandra Lazarova

10/04/2019

11 minutes to read

Recently a series of actions taken from former Vice Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Valeri Simeonov, led to him submitting his resignation. This article investigates how a Bulgarian online movement collaborated to take him down.

Was it really God's plan, Drake? Or is it just plain humanitainment?

Column

Hannah Fransen

07/05/2018

6 minutes to read

In "God's Plan" video, Drake takes a million-dollar budget and gives it to those in need. But, is it generosity or maybe an act of humanitainment?

Why is Japan the ideal country according to the Alt-Right movement

Article

Carmen Gabriela Lupu

28/05/2018

5 minutes to read

The Alt-Right is keen on Japan. In a country where approximately 98% is native Japanese, it has become the example of what a country should be like.

Online dating: a dangerous business?

Article

Marlyn Kemink

24/09/2018

7 minutes to read

Online dating seems to be the new kid on the dating block. However, this article goes into the history behind these recent developments and the risks related to it.

AfD party leaders Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland

AfD and the battle for the German nation

Article

Lisa Laarakker

04/12/2018

12 minutes to read

The Afd fights for a German nation, not for democracy. Acting like enhancers of democracy, the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party uses concepts like democracy to propagate a completely different and essentially antidemocratic message.

Antonio Gramsci and the internet, wearing Google Glasses

Why Gramsci's ideas are still relevant

Column

Jan Blommaert

24/04/2019

5 minutes to read

Gramsci has never been more relevant today today, in times of digital culture wars.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Guns

Article

Victoria Mohr

01/11/2018

12 minutes to read

This article examines how light communities on Twitter respond to mass shootings and gun violence, and how these responses entrench narratives and communities.

Masked man sitting behind a desk, using a computer

Forgive me father, for I hate women: anti-feminism and misogyny in the manosphere

Paper

Inge Beekmans

Anne-Marie Sweep

Linmin Zheng

zhifang Yu

01/11/2018

19 minutes to read

Academics describe the manosphere as “a particularly toxic brand of anti-feminism”. It is a place where promoting rape is acceptable, but saying you hate women is not. This essay examines linguistic structures within the manosphere .

The Pearl River Delta: a region of copycats or a center of innovation?

Article

Lennart Menger

14/01/2019

18 minutes to read

The Pearl River Delta, an economic miracle that is still struggling with a negative 'copycat' imago. Lennart Menger, a student from Tilburg University, argues to what extent the region has managed it to transform into a center of innovation.

We're all data subjects now: the citizen in the European GDPR

Column

Jan Blommaert

22/01/2019

7 minutes to read

The new European GDPR generalizes the notion of the "data subject". But what exactly is the data subject? And how does it fit into a regulation which is fundamentally about the trading of Big Data?

Dr. Philip Seargeant and Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou on Fake news and Stories

Video

The Editors

01/11/2018

Dr. Philip Seargeant and Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou talk about their work, fake news, the filter bubble, Stories and the sharing and showing of the self.

Plastic surgery and the quest for the perfect selfie in South Korea

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

Carmen Gabriela Lupu

26/11/2018

15 minutes to read

Plastic surgeries changed the world. In this article, we are going to talk about the measures taken to make an ordinary picture on your Instagram account “on point” and what some are willing to do in order to score those 10.000+ likes.