Media witnessing: journalism and vigilantism

Digital Vigilantism: Justice for a Syrian Refugee Family

Paper

Noa Reijnen

19/05/2021

10 minutes to read

A story about a Syrian refugee family being terrorized by their neighbors went viral on social media, and people demanded justice for the family. This digital vigilantism case will be analyzed in this paper.

How Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen is changing Dutch media from within

Paper

Lola Vos

15/03/2021

12 minutes to read

Through digital vigilantis, media critic Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen shares mistreatments in the Dutch media on her Instagram account "Zeikschrift." In this article, I analyse her Instagram account and the message it conveys.

Digital vigilantism during COVID-19 : The Chengdu patient

Article

Meiyi Su

07/01/2021

10 minutes to read

This article explores the human flesh search and attempted digital vigilantism that took place following the announcement of four sudden COVID-19 cases in the previously stabilized Chinese city of Chengdu.

Karen and digital vigilantism

Article

Aleksandra Dimitrova

06/01/2021

10 minutes to read

‘Karen’ videos are on the rise, but who is the digital vigilantes and who is the offender? Some aspects of dangerous forms of digital vigilantism.

Calling out the homofobus

Article

Ania Borkusewicz

05/01/2021

14 minutes to read

This article explores both offline and online responses to the Homofobus protest van in Poland and how these responses interact.

The controversial 'I no longer participate' hashtag

Article

Simone Sprangers

04/01/2021

15 minutes to read

A group of Dutch celebrities started a 'I no longer participate' hashtag on Instagram. This is a protest action against the government's management of the coronacrisis. What can this tell us about digitalization influences of news media?

A big crowd at a pride parade, with a rainbow flag in the middle

Framing of Pride 2020 in mainstream media and on social media

Article

Marieke Weeda

04/01/2021

11 minutes to read

This paper analyses how Pride 2020 is framed by online news platforms from the Netherlands and the United States, and how social media coverage differs from this.

Rise of contemporary youth-led online magazines

Article

Jessaline Tanjung

31/12/2020

15 minutes to read

Online magazines (or zines) are getting popularised online. Not only are their audience youth dominated, but their writers too. Here we see how different online magazines are to traditional journalism and see how they influence each other.