Diggit Magazine

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The Transcontinental: Benign sousveillance across Europe's other spaces

Column
Tom Van Hout
24/08/2023
10 minutes to read

Ultracycling throws into relief the prosaics of machine vision in heterotopian spaces of hedonism and minimalism. I illustrate what it's like to navigate surveillance technology in an ultracycling race across Europe.

Ultracycling throws into relief the prosaics of machine vision in heterotopian spaces of hedonism and minimalism. I illustrate what it's like to navigate surveillance technology in an ultracycling race across Europe.

The House of Commons
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Order!! John Bercow going viral

Column
Jan Blommaert
25/09/2019
5 minutes to read

John Bercow's shouting of "Order" in the Commons has become global cultural material. What happened?

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A Nation of Immigrants or a Nation of Laws?

Column
Rosalyn Negrón
25/09/2019
8 minutes to read

The very American phrase "nation of immigrants, nation of laws" now characterizes very different and polarized Americas.

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Bloody amazing, this menstrual activism

Column
Mijke Akkermans
14/08/2019
4 minutes to read

The necessity of the powerful practice of menstrual activism is deliniated in this column, which discusses its development and achievements, a personal opinion on its influence and its presence in the contemporary artistic sphere.

Uitgewezen: over Apu, racisme en boekenverbranding

Column
Goedele Ghijsen
11/04/2019
4 minutes to read

In deze pittige column stelt Goedele Ghijsen niet alleen het racisme aan de kaak, ze pleit ook voor de diversificatie van de jeugdliteratuur (en de boekenkast van Lisa Simpson).

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How EU families in Britain are coping with Brexit uncertainty

Column
Nando Sigona
02/09/2019
5 minutes to read

Brexit is usually thought of in terms of the nation and the EU. Less attention is spent on the impact of the Brexit negotations on mixed families and the uncertainty it creates. 

Corbyn at Glastonbury
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The Corbyn spy hoax and the cycle of fake news

Column
Jan Blommaert
23/02/2018
6 minutes to read

In February 2018, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was accused by the British tabloids of having been a Soviet spy. The media debate following these allegations offer us a glimpse the structure of a new media environment and the making of fake news.

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How AOC turned C-SPAN into a media hit

Column
Jan Blommaert
21/08/2019
6 minutes to read

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez congressional hearing interventions have turned C-SPAN's traditionally unspectacular broadcasts into a highly successful hybrid media format.

Virat Kohli
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Interested in globalization? Watch cricket

Column
Jan Blommaert
17/06/2019
7 minutes to read

The Cricket World Cup 2019 is a global media event of enormous size, while cricket itself is practiced only in a relatively small area in the world. How come?