Diggit Magazine

The truth of fiction

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.

Ilo Ilo: Realism and Fiction in Singaporean Family Dynamics

Article
Zoe Kng
29/05/2019
14 minutes to read

In Ilo Ilo, Anthony Chen manages to capture 1990s Singapore through the use of multiple resources. The film encompasses the complexity and often unspoken issues of the introduction of a maid to a family riddled by their own internal problems.

Life, Animated

Collaborative life writing in Life, Animated

Article
Mijke Akkermans
26/05/2019
14 minutes to read

Life, Animated Life, Animated tells the personal story of a young man with autism through a combination of narrative layers.  This paper discusses how these layers come together in a rare moment of collaborative life writing.

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Capharnaüm: an engaging story about Beirut

Article
Nadine Visser
24/05/2019
15 minutes to read

Capharnaüm is a realistic docudrama about a twelve-year old boy who wants to sue his parents. This paper discusses the realism and effects on the audience.

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Dunkirk: History Re-created for the Big Screen

Paper
Fernanda Delgado
09/11/2018
14 minutes to read

How much truth can we find in fictional representations of history? This paper explores the real and fictional elements in Chrsitopher Nolan's Dunkirk, and how they work together to immerse its audience in the historical event.

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