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#Wetoo: What dancers talk about when they talk about sexism

Paper

Ilse Ghekiere

22/01/2018

13 minutes to read

From recurring Lolita-fantasies on stage to auditioning naked and backstage power abuse; female dancers talk about the repercussions of a professional reality that celebrates unclear borders.

Racism and online interracial dating communities in the 21st century

Paper

Mariska van Schijndel

01/11/2018

24 minutes to read

The emergence of the internet has provided us with all kinds of dating communities on websites and social media. This paper discusses how online interracial dating communities function in the 21st century.

Afro hair, Afro beauty, Afro Italian

Paper

Addes Tesfamariam

01/11/2018

21 minutes to read

Micro-hegemony, a term introduced by Blommaert and Varis, refers to the dynamic complexity of values, beliefs and perceptions that shape one’s identity. Here I show how hair, beauty and nationality framed my Afro-Black-European identity.

black lives matter #blacklivesmatter #ferguson #transgender #equality democracy

Black Lives Matter too: from #hashtag to movement

Paper

Iris Wijers

26/09/2017

28 minutes to read

The Black Lives Matter movement has become a real phenomenon in American society. Iris Wijers analyzes this powerful and polarizing movement.

Digital culture in 2019

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Don't know what acceleration means? Then ''Overheating' is mandatory reading (Overheating - Thomas Hylland Eriksen)

Review

Jan Blommaert

01/06/2017

6 minutes to read

In his new book 'Overheating', Thomas Hylland Eriksen offers a mountain of information and even more food for thought, and it does so in a text that can be read at lightning pace.

We moeten allemaal feminist zijn

Paper

Iris Cuppen

30/05/2017

20 minutes to read

In dit essay wordt onderzocht hoe Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie zich als schrijver en publieke intellectueel mengt in het debat over het hedendaagse feminisme.

The debate around Shelter

Paper

Shannon Verhoef

20/02/2017

12 minutes to read

This paper explores how the term anime is culturally defined and if there is a difference in how people who are part of the Western anime fandom classify anime as opposed to people who aren’t.

Why is character amnesia in China considered problematic?

Paper

Lisanne Nugteren

16/01/2017

23 minutes to read

In the People's Republic of China, due to rapid technological developments more and more people rely on voice messaging and pinyin input for producing texts, rather than writing them by hand.

Een gesprek met Jeroen Olyslaegers

Interview

Sander Bax

Jan Blommaert

23/12/2016

Auteur Jeroen Olyslaegers wordt geïnterviewd door literatuurwetenschapper Sander Bax en sociolinguïst Jan Blommaert. Verwacht je aan een boeiend gesprek over Wil, politiek en cultuur.

Ari Sherris on Digital Culture in 2018 and 2019

Interview

The Editors

Ari Sherris

17/12/2018

In this interview, we ask Ari Sherris (Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA) to reflect on the impact of digital culture on his field.

Are video games increasingly mirroring globalized society?

Paper

Jady van Leusden

14/12/2018

15 minutes to read

The controversies around today's video games have provoked discussions about political correctness connected to new diverse characters.

Dunkirk: History Re-created for the Big Screen

Paper

Fernanda Delgado

09/11/2018

14 minutes to read

How much truth can we find in fictional representations of history? This paper explores the real and fictional elements in Chrsitopher Nolan's Dunkirk, and how they work together to immerse its audience in the historical event.

Fandom in times of superdiversity: the case of Sherlock

Paper

Suzanne Frenk

08/11/2018

14 minutes to read

By applying Howard Becker's theory, as well as theories on superdiversity, to a community of fans on Tumblr, this article attempts to shed some light on the internal workings of the JohnLock Conspiracy community in the digital age.

"Meeting of Styles" and the online infrastructures of graffiti

Academic paper

Jan Blommaert

08/11/2018

16 minutes to read

Social phenomena that looks very outspokenly "offline", such as graffiti, can no longer be understood without looking at the online infrastructures supporting them.

Image of One Direction's Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne

Aren’t you a bit too old for that?

Paper

Lisanne Nugteren

01/11/2018

12 minutes to read

Micro-hegemonies give shape to our identity. Lisanne Nugteren describes a few micro-hegemonies in her own life and explains related terminology.

Donald Trump online

Paper

Asya Krusteva

Kiki Bathoorn

01/11/2018

10 minutes to read

Donald Trump knows very well that mediated visibility can be used as a political instrument and weapon. So instead of trying to control this mediated visibility, he uses mediated controversy as his strategy.