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Literature vs. Traffic: Making room for literature and calmness in society through participatory art

Article

Femke Pulles

13/09/2023

9 minutes to read

This article explains how Literature vs. Traffic by the organization Luz Interruptus shows a contrast to the loud and overcrowded world we live in and makes them think more about literature through concepts of participatory art.

Linguistic Landscapes in Europe - Alternative city tours?

Article

Irina Jidoveanu

Ralf Cnobloch

Fatima Casio

Alisa Kulishkina

26/05/2023

11 minutes to read

This article highlights both the similarities and the differences between how different ethnic groups express themselves depending on the social, political, historical, and cultural context.

Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

How Weird Al Yankovic changed the game, again.

Paper

Ot van de Rijzen

30/08/2023

9 minutes to read

This paper offers an analysis of the film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and how it masterfully parodies the biopic genre.

Bandersnatch: You Make The Call, Right?

Paper

Wulan Bekker

24/05/2023

11 minutes to read

This paper examines the ways in which Bandersnatch and in specific its interactive function is a response to our post-digital way of living.

Anti-Chinese tech discourse

File

Tommaso Venturini on Controversy Mapping

Video

The Editors

19/09/2022

Tommaso Venturini avoided questions about the meaning of 'controversies' and 'Controversy Mapping'. But that's no longer the case. In this video, he explains what 'Controversy Mapping' is and why it is relevant.

The Absurdist Branding of Death Grips

Article

Michiel Hak

22/11/2023

7 minutes to read

This article will focus on Death Grips’ rise to cult status and how they used the internet as a paradigm for a rather artistic and unique business model.

Schliengensief's participatory art project holds up a distorting mirror to Austria's political landscape in the 2000s

Schlingensief's Big Brother of Xenophobia: Antagonism in participatory art

Article

Nathalie Schabio

27/09/2023

11 minutes to read

Schlingensief's participatory art installation "Bitte liebt Österreich" holds up a confronting mirror to Austria's political and social landscape in the 2000s by illustrating 21st-century fascism in a critically thought-provoking manner.

The Risks of Civil Disobedience Influenced by Online Culture

Academic paper

Bas Keemink

14/12/2022

17 minutes to read

On the basis of Ernesto Laclau's theory of political movements and current societal changes, this paper demonstrates that actions of civil disobedience in modern society that adhere to Arendt's criteria still have unfavorable effects.

R/place through the Lens of Relational Art

Paper

Marit van Dijck

09/12/2022

9 minutes to read

R/place is a perfect example of relational participatory art. This paper explores why it can be classified as such, and how it decommodifies and re-democratizes the collaborative, online pixel board artform.

Surveillance & Geopolitics: Why the European Union Banned TikTok for Government Officials

Article

Iva Konstantinova

01/11/2023

13 minutes to read

This article analyzes the privacy policy of TikTok in comparison to that of Meta’s Instagram and Facebook because of their greater popularity and similarity in video streaming methods on the premise of the surveillance-industrial complex.

Trumper than Trump? Vivek Ramaswamy’s Anti-China Stance & populist rhetoric

Paper

Prajakta Athlekar

28/02/2024

19 minutes to read

This paper examines the populist rhetoric of Ramaswamy through a critical discourse approach and how his anti-China stance actively contributes to a hegemonic position within US politics.

“Broooo do I have ADHD?” Self-diagnosis and the commodification of mental health disorders on TikTok

Article

Isabelle Cijsouw

22/03/2023

12 minutes to read

This paper explores mental health content on TikTok, the commodification of this type of content by TikTok creators, and self-diagnosing on social media. What exactly are the risks of performing these private discourses on platforms such as TikTok?

The war in Ukraine and the end of everything

Paper

Kevin Doyle

13/05/2022

34 minutes to read

Kevin Doyle doesn't understand why we let ourselves be reduced to passive observers of the war in Ukraine. Will we one day wake up – complicit and deranged – as nothing more than spectators at the end of everything?

‘Fiction Literacy’ in the Media Society: How to keep a grip on Reality Erosion

Academic paper

Odile Heynders

11/05/2023

8 minutes to read

How can ‘fiction literacy’ help people to get grip on the erosion of reality? Odile Heynders argues that trained or educated readers are capable of recognizing the permeability of factional and fictional elements in a narrative.

War-damaged buildings as a canvas: Banksy’s art in Ukraine

Paper

Maaike Lobbezoo

15/05/2023

11 minutes to read

The anonymous artist Banksy has used the ruins of Ukrainian cities as his canvas to make a statement about the ongoing war. This article dives into the meaning of Banksy's art and how art can be a critical reflection of our world.

methodology, digital discourse analysis, ethnography

From methodology to method and back. Some notes on digital discourse analysis

Working paper

Ico Maly

07/12/2022

Methodology may not be the most juicy stuff in academia, but it is crucial if we want to produce more than just opinions. In this article, Ico Maly stresses the importance of an empirical-interpretative methodology for social scientists.