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Philip Seargeant on Digital Culture in 2018 and 2019

Interview

The Editors

Philip Seargeant

18/12/2018

"Digital culture is so pervasive, there’s often very little analytic use in making hard distinctions between the online and offline worlds." Philip Seargeant from the Open University talks about digital culture, language and politics

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.

Pauline Hanson, a good ol’ Aussie  

Article

Bin Chen

17/12/2018

8 minutes to read

Australia has seen Hanson call Islam a disease and belittle Asians for not assimilating and forming ghettos instead. In this essay, Bin Chen looks into the xenophobic discourse Hanson used on ethnic minorities in Australia.

Squatting Slavs: a culture, a stereotype or just a meme?

Article

Kristiana Naydenova

08/11/2018

18 minutes to read

Is the Squatting Slav phenomenon helping Slavs express themselves or is it ruining their reputation? This article explores the emergence, historical background, popularization, culture and language of the meme.

Global Compact For Migration

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The end of Academia.edu: how business takes over, again

Column

Ico Maly

22/02/2018

3 minutes to read

Academia.edu used to be a refreshing and very useful platform for academics and students all over the world. That has ended with academia.edu introducing the ‘paid search’, says Ico Maly (Tilburg University).

Professor Leo Lucassen on migration and human rights

Video

The Editors

12/12/2018

After weeks of controversy around the Global Compact for Migration, Diggit Magazine asked Professor Leo Lucassen to put the debate and the Compact itself in a larger context.

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Modern hip-hop culture: Creating multi-layered identities in a globalized society

Article

Bibi Bonten

10/09/2018

14 minutes to read

How is identity constructed in our complex modern society? How have transcultural flows and identities influenced the concept of identity? And why modern hip-hop, as the perfect example?

Representation of the Zef Culture by Die Antwoord

Paper

Lisa Wijvekate

13/07/2017

16 minutes to read

Die Antwoord is a South African hip hop group that represents the South African Zef culture. This paper analyses the way the song 'Fatty Boom Boom' uses symbols and icons to represent Zef culture.

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Dating apps as part of our culture

Article

Manon Bijl

01/11/2018

12 minutes to read

Dating apps enable people to do things they have never done before. It are truly global products, but they only work because they are embedded in local (sub)cultural practices.

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What 'Drag Queen Story Time' teaches us about Dutch society

Column

Saskia Peters

13/12/2018

4 minutes to read

The Netherlands are often perceived as a tolerant country. However, foreign news about drag queens has showed us that this image can be contested.

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.

Lauren Zentz on Digital Culture in 2018 and 2019

Interview

The Editors

Lauren Zentz

14/12/2018

In this interview Lauren Zentz shares her thoughts about the impact of digital culture, and talks about her hopes for the future. For instance, she hopes that her work will contribute to our understandings of how to conduct sociolinguistic and ethnographic research that accounts for the power and even the ubiquity of the internet in many people’s daily lives.

Taylor Swift as an Alt-Right icon appropriation

Why is Taylor Swift associated with the Alt-Right movement?

Article

Jady van Leusden

01/11/2018

18 minutes to read

Taylor Swift is the embodiment of the perfect Nazi woman. At least, according to some members of the alt-right movement. But why? This is an article on the images behind the pop-icon and the Alt-Right movement. And finds a connection.

Brexit and online political activism

Paper

Isabell Wutz

Lisanne Nugteren

01/11/2018

19 minutes to read

Isabell Wutz and Lisanne Nugteren (Tilburg University) argue that in the context of the Brexit. that vox populism, slacktivism and online intertextuality have an adverse effect to the representativeness of the public debate.

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.

Will K-pop ‘conquer the World’ ?

Paper

Manouk Boelhouwers

01/11/2018

13 minutes to read

The new Korean wave has been very successful, but is it successful enough to conquer the world? And if it does, will it still be K-pop?