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What’s in a word: Neoliberalism or capitalism?

Column

Christian Chun

20/03/2019

5 minutes to read

Is there a difference between capitalism and neoliberalism? And what are the affordances of employing one term over another? Does this matter? According to Christian Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston) it does matter.

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Everything you never wanted to know about trolling

Article

Christine Cook

20/03/2019

9 minutes to read

Do you know what to do when you are trolled? Troll-research Chrissy Cook explains the phenomenon and gives you concrete guidelines!

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White terrorism, white genocide and metapolitics2.0

Column

Ico Maly

20/03/2019

7 minutes to read

The terrorist attack in New Zealand has an offline and an online dimension and it is crucial that we take this online/offline nexus on board when analyzing contemporary white terrorism. says Ico Maly (Tilburg University).

Everything you need to know about otaku

Article

Federica Morgandi

15/03/2019

17 minutes to read

Otaku is a subculture that originated in Japan. It later spread internationally because of globalization. As a consequence, internet communities of otaku grew. There are sometimes converging, other times diverging features.

Breivik, his sources and his legacy

File

On being diagnosed with irony poisoning

Column

Piia Varis

14/03/2019

8 minutes to read

What is irony poisoning? And should we really take it seriously as scholars? Piia Varis (Tilburg University) joins the debate.

Dr. Linnet Taylor on data justice

Video

The Editors

13/03/2019

Would you like to live in a world with perfect discrimination? Probably not. That's why thinking and talking about data justice is important. Dr. Linnet Taylor from Tilburg University explains.

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Where have the Chinese public intellectuals gone?

Column

Mingyi Hou

12/03/2019

9 minutes to read

In the democratization paradigm the focus is on the question to what extent media institutions are free from state intervention. In this column, Mingyi Hou questions the usefulness of this paradigm to explain why Chinese public intellectuals seem to be disappearing.

Smart cities and the imagined objectivity of data

Article

Sammy Kossen

12/03/2019

10 minutes to read

Smart Cities are not only about optimizing people's lives, but also lead to new forms of surveillance and directing people towards normative behavior. Big brother is watching you.

What makes a vlog a vlog?

Academic paper

Marissa K. Wood

08/03/2019

30 minutes to read

Looking at the “vlog” as a speech event, Hymes’s SPEAKING model is used to identify its contextual and interactional parameters. Conclusively, vlogging is a complex genre of new media with potential for extensive influence.

Is Google politically biased?

Article

Tunde Farago

07/03/2019

9 minutes to read

In this article, the issue of political bias is analyzed in relation to the algorithms behind the Google search engine.

What do 'Napalm Girl' and Alan Kurdi tell us about the digital public sphere?

Paper

Mariska van Schijndel

06/03/2019

12 minutes to read

With the rise of digital media, news items are increasingly based on emotions rather than rationality. In an ideal public sphere, we would have both.

What linguistic landscapes hide

Column

Jan Blommaert

11/03/2019

6 minutes to read

Offline linguistic landscapes hide a lot that only becomes overt when one traces these landscapes to their online extensions. It is by this move that we begin to get a grasp of the real complexity of "local" phenomena in a superdiverse world.

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I’m an Instagram Influencer, what do you do for a living?

Article

Lisa Veraa

04/03/2019

13 minutes to read

The globalization stage we live in can best be defined as a network society. This network society has brought us new 'jobs' like the Instagram influencer. What does this say about how our current society affects the way we view work?

Sander Bax: de literatuur draait door!

Article

The Editors

01/03/2019

3 minutes to read

Op vrijdag 1 maart verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Prometheus De literatuur draait door, het nieuwe boek van Sander Bax (Tilburg University). Diggit Magazine zocht hem op voor een gesprek.

Carnival: just another party?

Paper

Ruben Bastiaanse

04/03/2019

13 minutes to read

The future of carnival: is the traditional character and historical function of carnival at peril?

The return of the Culture Wars

Column

Ana Deumert

28/02/2019

7 minutes to read

In this column Ana Deumert reflects on the return of the cultures wars at universities and in popular culture. She suggests that the culture wars were not just a phenomenon of the 1980s and 1990s, but that they are continuing.