The multicultural individual

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 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.

California scheming: Miranda July's Kajillionaire (Miranda July)

Review

Bettie Cörvers

04/06/2021

8 minutes to read

In Miranda July's 2020 film Kajillionaire, Old Dolio's life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them in their scamming practices. She feels the need to detach from her hustling parents.

Emily in Paris: Bonjour clichés! (Darren Star)

Review

Tinka Krikke

05/05/2021

8 minutes to read

The new series 'Emily in Paris' has already received a lot of attention, but not without the critique. Parisians are routinely portrayed with a very essentialized and stereotypical national identity, which shapes our idea of 'Frenchness'.

Hindi Medium: Everyone has a different starting line from birth (Saket Chaudhary)

Review

Yan Shen

03/02/2021

6 minutes to read

The Indian film "Hindi Medium" is a typical realist film in which topics such as education issues, social class issues, rich and poor issues in India are discussed. If you want to get a glimpse of these, this film would be a good starting point.

Glee ( Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan)

Review

Luna-Anastasia Riedel

27/01/2021

7 minutes to read

Glee is an American musical-comedy television drama with a typical American high school setting and deals with a group of diverse teenagers who all connect through being in the school’s show choir.

Localising Japanese Games for a Global Market: a review of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Article

Juliette Berndsen

20/11/2023

9 minutes to read

The article explores cultural interpretations and substitutions which were achieved with localisation of settings, characters and other cultural references in the Western re-release of Japanese Nintendo game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

The Help (Movie director: Tate Taylor. Book author: Kathryn Stockett)

Review

Julia van der Staak

23/05/2018

7 minutes to read

The movie 'The Help', first released in 2011, is based on the well known and like-named novel, by Kathryn Stockett. The story is a good portrayal of multiculturalism and inequality within the American society of the 1960s.

Volunteer Tourism: Still Some Way to Go

Article

Sarah-Maria Geradin

06/02/2018

9 minutes to read

Tourism is now on its way towards sustainability. The following article discusses volunteer tourism, a form of tourism considered sustainable. But is this really the case?

My Friend is a White Muslim

Article

Bin Chen

03/01/2018

9 minutes to read

With growing sense of negativity and 'othering' of Islam in political sphere, in this article I take the story of a Dutch Muslim convert to explore religious and social factors attributed to his change.