Latest papers

What makes a vlog a vlog?

Academic paper

Marissa K. Wood

08/03/2019

30 minutes to read

Looking at the “vlog” as a speech event, Hymes’s SPEAKING model is used to identify its contextual and interactional parameters. Conclusively, vlogging is a complex genre of new media with potential for extensive influence.

How eSports became mainstream

Paper

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?

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.

Shia LaBeouf’s metamodern subversions of authenticity

Paper

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.

Paper

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?

Dunkirk: History Re-created for the Big Screen

Paper

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

Paper

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.

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

Paper

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

Paper

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.

‘Knolpower’ als Social Media Celebrity

Paper

Guus Hovens

08/11/2018

6 minutes to read

In dit essay wordt ingegaan op de rol die vlogger Enzo Knol vervuld in onze hedendaagse maatschappij. Is het concept 'celebrity' toereikend om hem te kunnen begrijpen?

#BlackLivesMatter

Paper

Laura Nelissen

08/11/2018

10 minutes to read

Black Lives Matter is a movement known and active all over the world. It all started with the hashtag #blacklivesmatter but now their message is more complex. The constructed message of a movement.

The white side of politics: America and the Alt-Right

Paper

Annabel Marmor

08/11/2018

14 minutes to read

A paper exploring the alt-right and its relationship with new and old media. What makes this movement tick?

Nordic Theory and Breivik's ideal society

Paper

Sarah-Maria Geradin

Jie Lin

Eveline Braat

05/11/2018

9 minutes to read

People have all sorts of ideas about what ‘the ideal society’ should or could be. Anders Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people in 2011, also had an ideal society in mind and wrote it down in his manifesto. Who were his sources?