Individuals and communities in the digital age

This course is part of the BA Online Culture: Art, Media and Society or the MA Online Culture at Tilburg University. Click on the link for more info on the courses and the programme.

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.

Selfie taking at a museum

The impact of Instagrammable Exhibitions

Article
Chiara Palsgraaf
20/03/2020
12 minutes to read

Art museums have started to create Instagrammable exhibitions, which focus on the experience, interactivity, and aesthetics. By making the exhibitions photogenic, they hope to lure social media users to the museum.

girl looking at phone

I downloaded six period tracking apps and things got weird

Article
Victoria Mohr
05/04/2019
16 minutes to read

Using the concept of chronotopes, period tracking apps are analyzed for culturally significant priorities and constructions such as emphasis on fertility, medicalization, and feminity.

Breivik on Feminism and Islamization

Article
Audry Bron
23/02/2019
10 minutes to read

Breivik’s thoughts on feminism still have a great impact on the masculinists’ scene today, but Breivik was not the starting point of the chain of anti-feminist views. He also collected his knowledge within an online community. 

Anders Behring Breivik and the Knights Templar.

Paper
Lida Nout
30/10/2018
9 minutes to read

Anders Behring Breivik was seen as a 'lone wolf', but also self-identified as a member of an ancient Christian martial order, the Knights Templar. How did he use this precursor in developing his worldview?

Nordic Theory and Breivik's ideal society

Paper
Sarah-Maria Geradin
30/10/2018
10 minutes to read

People have all sorts of ideas about what ‘the ideal society’ should or could be. Anders Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people in 2011, also had an ideal society in mind and wrote it down in his manifesto. Who were his sources?

Do viral campaigns work? From Movember to #itsoktotalk

Paper
Thi Phuong Anh Nguyen
22/10/2018
10 minutes to read

Viral challenges like the Ice Bucket Challenge or Movember have raised awareness and money for charity. We propose that a combination of seriousness and playfulness may be an important element of such campaigns. 

Breivik's forged police ID

Breivik, his sources and his legacy

File

A file on the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik and his view of the world.

Exploring Breivik: A “Lone Wolf”s War against Cultural Marxism

Article
Stella Veranoudi
03/10/2018
11 minutes to read

This paper provides an analysis of the connection between the online/offline anti-cultural Marxism communities and individuals starting with Anders Breivik, as we study his "2083" manifesto.