Digital Culture and Society

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<p>In this international Bachelor’s program Online Culture: Art, Media and Society (Culture Studies) the focus is on digital culture and (new) media. From disciplines such as cultural studies and media studies you study how digitalization and globalization influence our way of living. You discuss new ways of communication, art expressions as well as (social) media expressions like memes and trolls. You research how such ways of communication and expressions are established and how they manifest in, and have influence on a society that increasingly takes place online. Additionally, you actively contribute to digital culture by writing papers and opinion pieces for our own online platform Diggit Magazine.</p>

Click farms as shows in the HBO show 'Silicon Valley'.

A look behind the scenes of click farms

Article

Idhuna Pastoor

11/01/2019

11 minutes to read

Have you heard of click farms? They manipulate the algorithms on social media, and make use of the popularity principle to create visibility online. But are click farms actually a legal business?

Digital culture in 2019

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Digital technologies are so omnipresent around the world that the study of digital culture potentially encompasses all aspects of everyday life, and is not limited to the internet or modern communication technologies.

Influencers: From Connectedness to Connectivity

Article

Mariosé Bergsteijn

05/01/2019

10 minutes to read

Online social life is not merely about human connectedness anymore. This article shows how influencers instead use automated connectivity to influence their audiences via social media platforms.

YouTube's demonetization situation and the adpocalypse

Article

Alex Sinke

08/01/2018

12 minutes to read

YouTube, the most famous and global video sharing platform, is home to an overwhelming amount of content creators. However, the monetization scheme and the adpocalypse that followed have changed things for the worse.

The digital age and online bullying

Paper

Lovise Neess

07/09/2016

19 minutes to read

This paper aims to explore how the digital age influences social behavior within the context of online bullying, with case of Amanda Todd as point of reference. The analysis is done from a broad sociological perspective.

Music criticism in the digital age

Paper

Sam Branten

29/08/2016

16 minutes to read

This paper discusses the implications of digitalisation for music criticism. It may seem that professional music criticism is no longer relevant in the digitalised society of today, but in this paper, it is argued that this is not the case.

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

Paper

Eva de Feber

29/08/2016

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.

The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

Paper

Ho Chuen Ng

13/03/2016

23 minutes to read

This paper uses the Umbrella Movement as a case study to illustrate how the digital world can empower people in social movements.