Diggit Magazine

Events

The Child and The Book Conference 2025

Event

23/04/2025 to 25/04/2025

ADDA 5 (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis)

Event

21/05/2025 to 23/05/2025

Keynote Lecture: 'The Question of Technology in the Common(s)' by Tiziana Terranova

Video

The Editors

21/06/2024

In the early 2000sm the notion of the digital commons, the creative commons, and commons-based peer production were posed. In this keynote talk, Tiziana Terranova relates the commons to technology to demonstrate how the meaning of these words has changed.

Post-national imaginaries: engaging with cultural heritage conflicts from a digital culture perspective

Article

Inge Beekmans

22/04/2024

22 minutes to read

What do cultural heritage destruction and the internet have in common? Despite various threats, predictions and menacing words, both have not been able to drastically reduce the hegemony of nation-states. In fact, it appears that nation-states thrive in contexts of conflicts, crises and digital culture.

Being one of them: Participating in an online community while researching cultural heritage

Article

Jos Swanenberg

02/08/2022

9 minutes to read

How can researchers use social media to empower speakers of local dialects? In this article, Jos Swanenberg explains how Facebook and Instagram helped him to collect data on language variation, while simultaneously connecting with members of the community and handing back the accumulated knowledge.

DNA tests surveillance and privacy issues: AncestryDNA, 23andME, MyHeritage, or none at all?

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

01/02/2022

12 minutes to read

Despite its wide promotion and millions of customers around the world, the DNA test services raise questions on how the businesses are set up and what the regulations behind it are.

Environmental justice

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RoboCare Chronicles, a Digital Futures Podcast

Video

Dina Bousbaa

Silke van Esch

22/03/2024

In this exciting episode of Robo Care Chronicles, we go into beneath the heart of Elderly Care in the technologically evolved world of 2045.

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.

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.

Platform Affordances and Foreign Policy

Paper

Nikki Bergmans

17/04/2024

13 minutes to read

This article compares and contrasts Twitter and Facebook discourse, looks at how social media influences foreign policy conversations and considers the influence of platform affordances.
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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.

Lessons in Reading

Article

Odile Heynders

07/07/2023

12 minutes to read

According to Odile Heynders, students often lack the skill of engaging in a hermeneutic dialogue, which is defined as the capability of bringing up various questions in response to a text and the author's position and, subsequently, the ability to formulate various answers. In this article, Heynders engages with Philippe Lançon's Le lambeau in order to address this issue.

The bleeding heart of Sayat Nova : the intermediality of cinema portrayed through the Color of Pomegranates

Article

Mikaela Raeva

19/01/2024

12 minutes to read

In this article the intermedial nature of cinema is showcased through an analysis of the 1969 movie The Color of Pomegranates, which places emphasis on visual language and audience interpretation as crucial to its meaning.

Edoardo Celeste on digital constitutionalism

Video

The Editors

13/05/2024

Major tech corporations rule their regions of the internet through their codes, and perform as judges over their digital subjects. These corporations, however, are not bound by the same constitutional principles as states, nor are they obliged to take into accounts human rights.

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.

A person using a tablet and stylus to draw

DeviantArt and AI: The showdown between manual playbour and automated playbour

Paper

Pak Wing Ng

27/11/2023

15 minutes to read

By looking at DeviantArt and its no-AI alternative Side 7, the article explores an issue of the security of users' artwork with the rise of AI art generators, as well as the way the platforms deal with artwork protection.

Keep on Reading Fiction. 2023 in three fictional novels

Column

Odile Heynders

22/12/2023

6 minutes to read

The Orphanage by Serhi Zhadan, Tremor by Teju Cole, and The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck are literary texts that put 2023 in perspective. How does literature counterbalance oversimplification in the complicated times we live in?

QAnon and how they remain visible in the hybrid media system

Article

Sophie Mols

15/01/2022

11 minutes to read

QAnon keeps succeeding in spreading its messages despite the efforts of social media to censor them. This article explores how the tactics they use, real-world events, and the current media landscape influence this.