Latest papers

Dutch Language Representing Translator Dialect And Netherlands

'Dutch only at work’ : Discrimination or reasonable?

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Meauraine van Gorp

04/01/2019

16 minutes to read

Language requirements at work: a form of discrimination or reasonable selection? The following article provides an analysis that helps to determine your opinion regarding this matter.

How Forum voor Democratie puts itself in the spotlights

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Nikki Bergmans

27/12/2018

13 minutes to read

Forum voor Democratie is one of the fastest growing Dutch political parties, both on Facebook and off. How did they make this happen?

How eSports became mainstream

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Lucas Westphall

21/12/2018

18 minutes to read

This paper tries to uncover the reason behind the impact globalization has on eSports, the impact eSport have on globalization and how Twitch.TV helps enhance this.

Are video games increasingly mirroring globalized society?

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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.

picture of the Depot Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Depot

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Maud Schoonen

07/12/2018

12 minutes to read

This paper investigates if the new Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Depot is a transparent museum or merely provides the illusion of transparency.

Shia LaBeouf’s metamodern subversions of authenticity

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Ruben Bastiaanse

30/11/2018

20 minutes to read

How to interpret Shia LaBeouf's performance art in light of his affiliation to Metamodernism?

Anders Behring Breivik and the Knights Templar.

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Lida Nout

Irenea Penić

Nine Seelen

20/11/2018

9 minutes to read

Anders Behring Breivik was seen as a 'lone wolf', but also self-identified as a member of an ancient Christian martial order, the Knights Templar. How did he use this precursor in developing his worldview?

Side of the church of the Holy Heart in Tilburg

Deconstructing Tilburg: the Heilig Hartkerk

Academic paper

Inge Beekmans

16/11/2018

25 minutes to read

The Heilig Hartkerk was intentionally demolished by the inhabitants of the city. A decision many people now regret. Was it a flurry of bewilderment? Or did something more deliberate, and possibly even malicious, happen?

Dunkirk: History Re-created for the Big Screen

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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

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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.

Loose tweets sink fleets. Digitalization, privacy and security in the military

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Eva de Feber

08/11/2018

22 minutes to read

This paper focuses on the various privacy practices military personnel and their relatives engage in in their military context and how they have been influenced by digitalisation.

Why Lindsey Graham is the Defeated Commander

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Lovise Neess

08/11/2018

21 minutes to read

Explaining political failure is as relevant as explaining political success.This analysis explores why Lindsey Graham's political message did not succeed in capturing the electorate in the campaign for the Republican presidential primaries.