Diggit Magazine

Our data: public by default, private through effort?

Article

Romy van Geffen

10/12/2018

12 minutes to read

Review of Facebook's privacy settings: What is their idea of the level of publicity and privacy? How do they encourage users to be either public or private by presenting certain defaults?

Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the highest authority on election laws and regulations, tries to fight Fake News during the Presidential Elections, but without regulation by law

How did fake news run voters' opinions in the Brazilian elections

Article

Ana Clara Panontin Scarabelli

11/02/2019

21 minutes to read

Brazilian presidential election of 2018 became internationally known by the extreme rise of fake news. In this context, traditional media reappears as a counter-force for the fast spreads of false information.

How did catfishing come into our society?

Article

Anna Meerts

05/12/2018

10 minutes to read

This article deals with one of the downsides of digitalization called catfishing. Do you know what online phenomenon 'Catfishing' is? This article provides the answer.

What do Knausgård and social media bloggers have in common?

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

31/01/2020

18 minutes to read

What do Knausgård and Instagram travel bloggers have in common? How do social media and contemporary literature inspire and influence each other? The answer lies in this article, where Knausgård is compared to young 'Western' travel bloggers.

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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.

The Age of Zoom Meetings for a person who stutters

Column

Jacob Berexa

28/05/2020

6 minutes to read

The Age of Zoom Meetings is especially difficult for people who stutter (PWS for short). Jacob Berexa explains why zoom is emotionally draining for people with PWS.

BTS A.R.M.Y on Twitter

Article

Luna-Anastasia Riedel

02/06/2020

18 minutes to read

This article focuses BTS A.R.M.Y, the fandom of Korean boyband BTS as a niched culture on Twitter. It analyzes how the fandom influences BTS achievements and success on the global stage through their online support.

Ok boomer and the 'generation war'

Article

Leonie Milder

Jeroen J. de Wit

Aleksandra Dimitrova

22/01/2020

14 minutes to read

By now, everyone has heard of it. The term ‘ok boomer’ has gone viral. The term comes from 'Baby Boomer', a name for the generation born between 1946 and 1964. Now, it means something completely different as the 'generation war' rages on.

#BodyPositive: Disrupting Normativity Online

Article

Victoria Mohr

Mehreen Sarfaraz

08/11/2018

11 minutes to read

#bodypositive has been used by more than 4 million users on Instagram. This paper uses a Foucauldian lens to explore how body positive Instagrammers counter normative discourses of the body in western societies.

Anti-Referendum Protest, Bucharest Romania

The Case of Romania’s Family Referendum

Article

Alina Andrei

27/03/2019

10 minutes to read

When doing politics, doing nothing is clearly not the right approach – but doing nothing was the effective strategy by which the hateful acts of the Romanian government, framed as a Family Referendum, were stopped on the 6th and 7th of October.

K-Pop as a linguistic phenomenon

Article

Luna-Anastasia Riedel

09/03/2020

13 minutes to read

The interest in Korean pop music has been rising over the last couple of years making the Korean Wave grow. As part of its fan following, K-Pop has developed into a unique linguistic phenomenon, whereby fans are familiarized with Korean.

Revealing racist words in the superdiverse era

Paper

Anne Marte Gardenier

Ruth Mollema

02/06/2020

11 minutes to read

This article focuses on Dutch vocabulary changes that are brought on by inter-cultural contact as a result of globalization. The superdiverse population of the Netherlands is raising awareness for racist Dutch vocabulary.

OK boomer meme online culture generations

The discursive construction of the OK boomer meme

Article

Elle Lüchau

30/03/2020

12 minutes to read

In this article, I analyse the discursive construction of the OK boomer meme, examining its political and ideological significance and its different modes of use in a digital media system.

When mHealth apps become unhealthy

Article

Kelsey van Tellingen

01/05/2019

10 minutes to read

Mhealth apps have become more popular in the last couple of years. Are we losing the connection with our body by using our mobile devices to tell us whether we are living a healthy lifestyle? We need more information about the use of health apps.

The Kardashian-Jenner Expository Empire

Article

Bibi Bonten

03/04/2020

14 minutes to read

Our values regarding privacy and dignity are changing in this online age, and exhibitionism is more alive than ever. The Kardashian family of influencers serves as an example to elaborate on these ongoing changes in our society.

Let’s talk about big tech (no, not you)

Column

Linnet Taylor

25/02/2020

4 minutes to read

In her first Diggit column, Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University) makes the case that big tech has a consent problem and that researchers should address the lumpy, inconvenient, political reality of big tech.