Diggit Magazine

Misogyny: A Gaming Company against the Community

Article

Clara Daniels

Femke Pulles

Danny le Comte

11/01/2022

17 minutes to read

The gamer stereotype is slowly changing which is shown through the community's response to the misogynic activities that the gaming company Blizzard-Activision engaged in.

Pulse's main character Kudo Michi looks back at a human-shaped ash stain on the wall

Techno-horror and Hauntology: Pulse’s cry for help in a technologically dependent world

Paper

Paige Christianne Andres

08/04/2022

8 minutes to read

Pulse explores themes of the unknown and loneliness on the Internet. This article explores how this film uses techno-horror and its ghosts as a metaphor for our perception of and attitude towards technology, the Internet, and the unknown.

The Joy Luck Club: the joy in finally being understood (Amy Tan (author); Wayne Wang (director))

Review

Jessaline Tanjung

23/12/2022

10 minutes to read

The Joy Luck Club is the pioneer of Asian American representation on the big screen. It emphasizes the expectations to be 'Chinese' from your own family and the struggle to be understood by your own family, all due to the cultural gaps.

R/place through the Lens of Relational Art

Paper

Marit van Dijck

09/12/2022

9 minutes to read

R/place is a perfect example of relational participatory art. This paper explores why it can be classified as such, and how it decommodifies and re-democratizes the collaborative, online pixel board artform.

Anti-Chinese tech discourse

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Identity Exploration in 'How to Be Ace': Otherness and Self in a Sex-Normative World

Paper

Semmy Claassen

08/09/2023

26 minutes to read

Explore Burgess's How to Be Ace memoir, revealing asexuality's othering in society. Multimodal analysis and imagology unveil identity challenges.

Real Terror Through Cinema: The Sublime in Cannibal Holocaust

Article

Gideon De Pan

26/04/2023

14 minutes to read

This paper delves into Cannibal Holocaust's status as a sublime object by discussing what impact the inclusion of real animal cruelty has on Cannibal Holocaust’s ability to deliver a sublime experience.

Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

How Weird Al Yankovic changed the game, again.

Paper

Ot van de Rijzen

30/08/2023

9 minutes to read

This paper offers an analysis of the film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and how it masterfully parodies the biopic genre.

Getting through Amazon's The Rings of Power for the memes

Article

Inge Beekmans

18/09/2022

21 minutes to read

Various media have highlighted the racism that imbues the angry reactions of Lord of the Rings fans to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. An analysis of the memes that were created in response to the series.

Members of the Boston Red Cloaks carried signs hung from clothing hangers as they marched on the State House and advocated for reproductive freedom

The Handmaid's Tale: Transmedia storytelling and Activism

Article

Iva Konstantinova

14/11/2022

10 minutes to read

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian text that underscores women's activism, bearing its transmedia potential. This article, therefore, examines how its thematic focus transcends other media toward political advancement for women.

Ghislaine Handiri: Authentic Self-Presentation on Social Media

Paper

Noa Reijnen

27/01/2023

9 minutes to read

This paper describes how one specific influencer, Ghislaine Handiri, presents herself as authentic on Instagram and how Instagram as a mediator influences and shapes her authenticity.

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Sublime of the Void in Anish Kapoor’s “Descent into Limbo”

Paper

Olga Koltsova

29/09/2023

11 minutes to read

This paper takes a close look at the intriguing idea of the sublime and how it shows up in the modern art of Anish Kapoor.

New understanding of AI through post-humanist life writing

Paper

Jaimy Pijpers

19/06/2023

21 minutes to read

Kazuo Ishiguro portrays a nuanced characterization of AI with 'Klara and The Sun'. This paper re-evaluates the genre of life writing so it can provide a better understanding of AI and other-than-human perspectives.

APESHIT: The Carters versus Globalization and Art

Paper

Jaimy Pijpers

10/02/2023

10 minutes to read

An analysis of the music video of APESHIT by the Carters. The music video criticizes the Western monopolization of Art. This paper analyses the music video through the perspective of McDonaldization, Colonialism, Art history, and World Art.

A deep dive into the pinky glove scandal

Pinky Glove: A feminist analysis of the menstrual status quo and digital menstrual activism

Article

Nathalie Schabio

06/09/2023

13 minutes to read

The Pinky Glove proves that periods are a societal taboo topic. This article is a deep dive into how German media reinforces menstruation stigma and stereotypes and how digital menstrual activism combats the negative menstrual status quo.

Wealthy woman's total linguistic facts

Article

Tom Van Hout

Ad Backus

12/09/2023

8 minutes to read

To understand how cultural ideas are evoked, we must analyze the total linguistic fact: how the interplay of language structure, use and ideology shapes social life.

The poster for Goncharov, the fake Scorsese film

Goncharov: Tumblr’s greatest mafia ‘movie’ and social phenomenon

Article

Anna Skorodihina

17/03/2023

9 minutes to read

This article looks into Goncharov (1973), the fake mafia movie fully fabricated by the users of Tumblr. Asking the question of what this phenomenon says about the state of our current society.