Latest papers

Truth Social in the Apple App Store on an iPhone

The truth on Truth Social

Paper

Hannah Meijaard

16 minutes to read

13/02/2023

A discourse analysis on the platform "Truth Social", created by former US president Donald J. Trump.

digital media, platform ideologies, digital ideologies

Digital economy and platform ideologies

Working paper

Ico Maly

16/06/2023

Can we analyse digital media platforms as producers of ideology? Ico Maly lays out a framework to do exactly that.

Harry Styles' persona: How his presentation of self led to queerbaiting accusations

Paper

Marel van Andel

18/09/2023

23 minutes to read

The way Harry Styles presents himself has led to accusations of queerbaiting. his paper explores the difference between how Harry Styles presents himself and how others view him play a role in the accusations of queerbaiting.

Identity Exploration in 'How to Be Ace': Otherness and Self in a Sex-Normative World

Paper

Semmy Claassen

08/09/2023

26 minutes to read

Explore Burgess's How to Be Ace memoir, revealing asexuality's othering in society. Multimodal analysis and imagology unveil identity challenges.

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We moeten het hebben over respect

Academic paper

Tjeerd van de Laar

07/09/2023

14 minutes to read

Kritische analyse van het woord respect in de recent (2021) gewijzigde wetgeving over burgerschap in het funderend onderwijs. Tevens bied ik een alternatief voor de huidige formulering van de wet aan de hand van het begrip tolerantie.

K-pop: from local to international

Paper

Gergana Mihaylova

01/09/2023

11 minutes to read

K-Pop is a recent fad that has recently emerged as an apparent cultural phenomenon in Europe and America. That being said, I will analyse how Korean pop expands from local music to international sensation through globalization.

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.

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Algorithmic discourse analysis: the good and the bad of LDA topic modeling

Paper

Ruben den Boer

21/08/2023

22 minutes to read

Algorithmic methods can be used to analyse thousands of pieces of discourse in a matter of minutes. But is more always better? In this article I introduce one such method: LDA topic modeling.

New understanding of AI through post-humanist life writing

Paper

Jaimy Pijpers

19/06/2023

21 minutes to read

Kazuo Ishiguro portrays a nuanced characterization of AI with 'Klara and The Sun'. This paper re-evaluates the genre of life writing so it can provide a better understanding of AI and other-than-human perspectives.

Reproducing platform ideologies: Do what you like with Gary VEE

Working paper

Ico Maly

16/06/2023

Influencers have an important role in the digital attention economy. One of the facets of that role - namely how they reproduce media ideologies - deserves more attention. This case study looks at Gary Vee as an ideological actor.

The sublime in rising sea levels and related art

Paper

Marel van Andel

14/06/2023

12 minutes to read

This paper answers the question of whether the topic of rising sea levels in art can be seen as sublime. To come to a conclusion, theories by Burke and Salmose are used to analyze Daan Roosegaarde's Waterlicht as a case study.

MeWe: Mark Weinstein’s technological utopia

Paper

Nikki Bergmans

12/06/2023

15 minutes to read

This article unravels how Mark Weinstein questions the surveillance capitalist hegemony of Silicon Valley and discursively constructs a technological utopia by translating his beliefs into social media platform MeWe.

A revolution triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini

Bearing witness online: How hashtags enabled an uprising in Iran

Paper

Prajakta Athlekar

05/06/2023

15 minutes to read

This paper explores how the fearless citizens of Iran are bearing witness every single day and strengthening the revolution through witness footage, hashtag framing, and authenticity.