Elk academisch debat heeft minstens twee kanten

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Jan Jaap de Ruiter
16/03/2024

In dit blog ga ik in op een eerder stuk van collega Michiel Bot over de vraag of Tilburg University over moet gaan tot een boycot van Israëlische zusterinstellingen.

My goodbye to Omegle

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Naomi Hofman
07/03/2024

The platform known for randomized global video chatting is dead. Omegle, launched in March 2009, has ceased to exist. Date of death: November 8th, 2023. Perpetrator: Leif K-Brooks of Brattleboro, Vermont. Also known as: the founder of Omegle. 

Digital rendering of a dark skinned male face, dark background

Generative AI and the uncanny valley (and a call to action)

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Ruben den Boer
09/03/2023

Understanding how we perceive AI-generated content is not only new and exciting. It is urgent. As students and scholars of digital culture, we should develop an empirically grounded understanding of this new mode of discourse. 

Migration

Emergence Of Modern Institutions & Mobility Control

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Blean Tsige
06/03/2024

In the book “Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century” the chapter “The Regime of Mobility Control: Liminal Porocratic Insutitons” by Dimitirs Papdopouls (2008), covers the author's thought-provoking core concepts.

War reenactment

Violence & War

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Blean Tsige
05/03/2024

This essay's objective is to analyze Pinker's (2012) opinion on violence and war.  According to Pinker (2012), apparently, the concepts of war and violence have vanished in the West.

De overheidsuitgaven van Frankrijk als percentage van het bruto binnenlands product

Frankrijk, land van melk, honing en subsidies

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Anton Greefhorst
04/03/2024

De Franse overheid heeft een ziekelijke neiging om subsidies uit te delen aan een bevolking die verslaafd is aan die subsidies. Aan de hand van enkele opvallende voorbeelden, wordt dit fenomeen geïllustreerd.

Visualising Depression

The Shameful Website & How This Behaviour Dictates Women's Future

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Blean Tsige
04/03/2024

This essay starts by dealing with the narrative of Hunter Moore’s controversial website that used to depict naked women as an act of revenge. It seeks to aim at how shame can cause behaviour such as this misogynistic conduct by Moore.

Gold

Old But Gold

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Blean Tsige
01/03/2024

The visual representation of different races, gender and sexuality is discussed and has become a vital matter around the globe. It is also vital to consider age as an important sociological category, which has a certain socio-political ordering.

Trump Lost

Analyzing The Potential Consequences Of Trump As A President In 2024

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Blean Tsige
27/09/2023

Trump wants to become President again in 2024. What does this mean for the world if the most powerful office is run by the most impeached President? Let's try to figure out why Mr. Make-America-Great-Again keeps coming back to the office.

The World

The Climate Will Deny You If You Keep Denying Climate Change

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Blean Tsige
13/02/2024

Stop climate change-denying otherwise the climate will deny you.  

The twin phenomena of inaction and denial demonstrate that we are all not immune to being climate change deniers. Is awareness truly enough to save the earth?