Latest papers

Platform Affordances and Foreign Policy

Paper

Nikki Bergmans

13 minutes to read

17/04/2024

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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Replika: the imaginary friend of the digital age

Paper

Wulan Bekker

06/11/2023

11 minutes to read

This article explores the extent to which social relationships with AI chatbots are possible while using Replika as a case study. This research argues that post-digital society’s view on relationships has altered due to AI interactions.

How the Commercialization of Feminism Equals Activism In the Millennial Age

Paper

Miah Ke-leigh

03/11/2023

17 minutes to read

Within viral communities, many uploaded posts often include hashtags in correlation to celebrity feminism. I will discuss the relevance of these hashtags to feminism and how celebrity figures use them to endorse themselves further.

FanArt of "No One is Talking About This"

"Can A Dog be Twins?" and Other Questions No One Is Talking About

Paper

Clara Daniels

30/10/2023

8 minutes to read

"Can A Dog be Twins?" Is all it takes for the main character to blow up online, to travel the world attending conferences to talk about how the internet has changed, transformed, yes, revolutionised communication! Yet all WE get is memes

#Hexit: witches in Dutch political discourse

Paper

Ruben den Boer

28/02/2022

14 minutes to read

Witches are hardly political figures, but their name and likeliness are used in Dutch political discourse, for example in the hashtag #hexit. So, what actually is the discursive function of witches is in Dutch political discourse?

Transmedia and Convergence: World-Building in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Paper

Loek van der Heijden

25/09/2023

9 minutes to read

This paper dives into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter with reference to theoretical principles like transmedia and convergence culture as described by Henry Jenkins

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Sublime of the Void in Anish Kapoor’s “Descent into Limbo”

Paper

Olga Koltsova

29/09/2023

11 minutes to read

This paper takes a close look at the intriguing idea of the sublime and how it shows up in the modern art of Anish Kapoor.

How China’s #MeToo evaded the “great firewall” in the digital world

Paper

Prajakta Athlekar

25/09/2023

9 minutes to read

Amidst an authoritarian censorship, China's #MeToo movement creatively bypasses the "great firewall" in the digital world.

A truthful conversation with ChatGPT

Paper

Noortje Bisschop

20/09/2023

17 minutes to read

This article examines AI's position in the debate between a universal type of truth and a post-truth narrative by means of an interview with ChatGPT.

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.