Diggit Magazine

Tweeting Fear: Affective Messaging and Anti-China Sentiments in Nikki Haley's Discourse

Paper

Isobel Huisman

05/02/2024

21 minutes to read

This paper explores Nikki Haley's affective messaging to shape public opinion against China and TikTok, exploring Haley's ideological language, narrative construction and how her discourse is received by the audience.

methodology, digital discourse analysis, ethnography

From methodology to method and back. Some notes on digital discourse analysis

Working paper

Ico Maly

07/12/2022

Methodology may not be the most juicy stuff in academia, but it is crucial if we want to produce more than just opinions. In this article, Ico Maly stresses the importance of an empirical-interpretative methodology for social scientists.

digital media, platform ideologies, digital ideologies

Digital economy and platform ideologies

Working paper

Ico Maly

16/06/2023

Can we analyse digital media platforms as producers of ideology? Ico Maly lays out a framework to do exactly that.

Nosedive, a vicious take on social media (Joe Wright)

Review

Heleen Dijkhuizen

29/09/2017

3 minutes to read

Black Mirror's Nosedive shows us a vicious take on social media.

Anti-Chinese tech discourse

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Everything you need to know about E-girls?

Article

Yoanna Manoilova

04/12/2020

15 minutes to read

How e-girls online behavior and the mockery towards them create the Internet girls image

Two white individuals looking out of a window to an impressive view of nature

‘Live Anywhere on Airbnb’: how Airbnb discursively constructs a technological utopia

Article

Isabelle Cijsouw

19/10/2021

14 minutes to read

Live anywhere in the world and travel anytime you want: according to Airbnb, we'll soon all live a flexible lifestyle. This case study analyzes how Airbnb constructs a techno-utopian vision of the world.

"Mobilisation is going according to plan": caricature art during the Ukraine war

Article

Anna Francuzova

04/03/2024

10 minutes to read

This paper explores the unique role of caricature art during the Ukraine war, examining how it functions as a powerful tool for propaganda, satire, and protest, challenging authority during times of war.

The Beatles and Globalization in the Sixties

Paper

Mariska van Schijndel

Rosalie Vaarten

k.raaijmakers@uvt.nl Raaijmakers

Aniek van den Brandt

Naomi Dominicus

15/04/2022

28 minutes to read

This paper discusses how The Beatles contributed greatly to changes in global youth culture worldwide in the 1960's.

surveillance capitalism, capitalism, google, facebook

The age of surveillance capitalism ( Shoshana Zuboff)

Review

Ico Maly

13/02/2019

12 minutes to read

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff deserves a productive public and academic debate. It should not only be read and discussed by a broad audience. Scholars across disciplines must engage with it.

Richard Barbrook on The Californian Ideology and the future

Video

The Editors

09/03/2022

When Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron wrote The Californian Ideology over 25 years ago, people believed the whole world would soon resemble the United States. Today, the situation appears much different. China appears to be the most futuristic country in the world and the United States, together with its monopolistic tech companies, might represent a past we'd want to leave behind sooner rather than later.

'Let me show you the world': Aladdin and Disney's long-standing tradition of sexism

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

09/07/2020

21 minutes to read

The familiar and beloved Aladdin story is full of plot controversies. The fairytale narrative can bring irreversible harm to future generations. What makes the childhood favorite so dangerous for our society?

Influencer marketing has some serious ethical issues

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

29/01/2019

10 minutes to read

Influencer marketing is powerful. In recent years consumer trust in classic media has dropped. In the search for profit, a new business model has emerged on social media.

TikTok under the spotlight: an analysis of NBC News' approach and the potential instrumentalization of TikTok through an anti-Chinese ideology

Paper

Michela Bon

08/04/2024

32 minutes to read

Unveiling the dynamics on NBC News' YouTube channel, this article investigates whether its portrayal of TikTok is impartial or influenced by an anti-Chinese stance, contributing to the geopolitical narrative between China and the USA.

Taylor Swift and the story of the Swifties fandom

Article

Amber van As

Jady van Leusden

Sam van Alebeek

Niels van der Ven

29/12/2017

15 minutes to read

The fans of pop icon Taylor Swift call themselves the Swifties. This article will provide an introduction to this social group and its functioning.

Sign with two classic pictograms for women's and men's toilet, black on white.

To Pee, or not to Pee? A linguistic landscape analysis of toilet signs in the public sphere

Article

Elise Stegmann

Ot van de Rijzen

Angela Veltman

24/08/2023

14 minutes to read

In this article, we will examine six different pictures of toilet signs in public spaces, intended to be an original alternative to classic toilet signs, and how their understanding is conditional.

#Hexit: witches in Dutch political discourse

Paper

Ruben den Boer

28/02/2022

14 minutes to read

Witches are hardly political figures, but their name and likeliness are used in Dutch political discourse, for example in the hashtag #hexit. So, what actually is the discursive function of witches is in Dutch political discourse?