Digital Culture Studies Thesis - article

Platform Affordances and Foreign Policy

Paper
Nikki Bergmans
17/04/2024
13 minutes to read

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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To cheat or not to cheat? Discourses of fear and assumption in the FFXIV Community

Paper
Hannah Meijaard
23/02/2024
18 minutes to read

This research is about norm negotiating surrounding the cheating scandal of the first clear of the Ultimate Raid “The Omega Protocol” in the gaming community of Final Fantasy XIV: Online on Reddit.

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The influence of Instagram’s affordances on Instapoetry: the characteristics of a literary genre born on social media

Article
Mirte Glasbergen
04/09/2024
23 minutes to read

This article examines the influence of Instagram’s affordances on Instapoetry by combining literary research and digital culture studies. The study suggests that Instapoetry underlines the presence of Instagram as a global, universal platform.