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Persepolis: an autobiographical graphic novel

Article

Susanne Vermeeren

22/11/2019

12 minutes to read

What are the advantages of writing your autobiography as a graphic novel, rather than a novel? This paper analyzes Satrapi's Persepolis as an autobiographical graphic novel.

Bolsonara, Brazil, populism, amazon fires

The Amazon fires as talking to Bolsonaro

Article

Daniel Silva

10/10/2019

16 minutes to read

According to Daniel Silva, the Amazon Fires can best be considered as political talk: as digitally formatted practices trying to communicate with Bolsonaro.

BREAKING: 'Devastating Al-Qaeda attacks in Norway'

Article

Mijke Akkermans

Nadine Visser

Cintie Rooijakkers

18/11/2019

11 minutes to read

This article investigates how news media worked through the 'breaking news' format in their reports about the 2011 Norway attacks by looking at the presence of experts and witnesses, and the use of the 'muslim-terror' format and its societal effects.

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.

Babylon's Burning

File

Play and metapolitics in Angry Goy II

Paper

Shannon Verhoef

06/05/2019

13 minutes to read

This article examines how videogame Angry Goy 2 constructs its anti-Semitic and white supremacist messages, and if this videogame is ready to effectively enter and succeed in the metapolitical arena.

Facebook and the Rohingya genocide deniers

Paper

Tunde Farago

21/10/2019

17 minutes to read

How do the Rohingya genocide deniers use Facebook to spread their narratives and what kind of arguments do they use to support their claims?

Brexit : An Online Battle With Offline Casualties

Article

Rebecca Jaffe

11/06/2019

13 minutes to read

In the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Leave campaign emerged victorious. This can be somewhat attributed to their effective use of social media strategies across multiple platforms. This article will explore how such tools produced this outcome.

Body positivity online

Article

Jelske van Es

08/04/2019

14 minutes to read

Body positivity is an online movement with an increasing amount of supporters. These body positivists used social media to spread their 'body positive' message. How do people respond to body positivity? And how can we recognize body positivity?

Trumps Tweetopoetics

Column

Jan Blommaert

24/11/2018

6 minutes to read

Trump speaks in tweets. But his tweets are made for speaking too.

travelling, travellers, authenticity, freedom, instagram

Freedom, Authenticity, and Traveling

Article

Hilde Van De Laar

18/09/2019

12 minutes to read

Travelers these days are not that free and authentic as they were years ago. Travelers get influenced and followed provided by technological opportunities what results in a market mechanism of fake authenticity.

Liberalism, aka ‘the left’ in the US?

Column

Christian Chun

23/04/2019

5 minutes to read

In his new column, Christian Chun zooms in on the use of 'liberalism' and 'liberals' as a synonym for the left in United States. Socialism and the left should should not be conflated with liberalism.

The K-Pop Fandom on Twitter

Article

Lola Vos

31/05/2019

17 minutes to read

K-Pop fans can now be found all over the world. Due to the mass organized fan actions, traditions, and complicated language, the K-Pop fandom sets itself apart from other fandoms. In this article I look at K-Pop fans on Twitter as a cultural niche.

Why biometric data is not safe anymore

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

09/01/2019

7 minutes to read

Biometric data plays a huge role in our everyday lives. We use it to unlock our phones, for bank payments, memberships and travelling. But do we ever think about risks connected to our biometric privacy?

surveillance capitalism, capitalism, google, facebook

The age of surveillance capitalism ( Shoshana Zuboff)

Review

Ico Maly

13/02/2019

12 minutes to read

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff deserves a productive public and academic debate. It should not only be read and discussed by a broad audience. Scholars across disciplines must engage with it.

I downloaded six period tracking apps and things got weird

Article

Victoria Mohr

24/05/2019

16 minutes to read

Using the concept of chronotopes, period tracking apps are analyzed for culturally significant priorities and constructions such as emphasis on fertility, medicalization, and feminity.

Dr. Ralf de Wolf on networked privacy and privacy management

Video

The Editors

11/06/2019

In this video Ralf de Wolf discusses the ways in which we need privacy in order to have a well functioning democracy, and the ways in which our privacy and our society are being threatened by a misuse of new technologies.