In Catfish: the TV show hosts Nev and Max help people who are head over heels about someone they met online. A review.
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (E.M. Forster)
Review
Vanda Vozarikova
23/10/2017
4 minutes to read
Could a story from over 100 years ago have predicted today's reality? Read this to discover more about the visionary E.M. Forster truly was. A contemporary reading of E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops.
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.
Vrede kun je leren (David Van Reybrouck, Thomas D'Ansembourg)
Review
Jan Blommaert
12/07/2017
4 minutes to read
"Vrede kun je leren" is niet meteen een denderend boekje, maar is wel nodig.
Don't know what acceleration means? Then ''Overheating' is mandatory reading (Overheating - Thomas Hylland Eriksen)
Review
Jan Blommaert
01/06/2017
6 minutes to read
In his new book 'Overheating', Thomas Hylland Eriksen offers a mountain of information and even more food for thought, and it does so in a text that can be read at lightning pace.
Gender, power and political speech. Women and language in the 2015 UK General Election (Deborah Cameron & Sylvia Shaw)
Review
Piia Varis
08/03/2017
4 minutes to read
Gender, Power and Political Speech is not only important but enjoyable reading, says Piia Varis.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Cathy O'Neil)
Review
Piia Varis
09/01/2017
4 minutes to read
Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) by Cathy O'Neil makes a very compelling case for people to start asking more questions and demand more transparency regarding algorithmic models that are being used to regulate so many aspects of their lives.
When the law comes out of the barrel of the gun (Graham Denyer Willis)
Review
Paul Mutsaers
26/10/2016
5 minutes to read
The book is a product of intense ethnographic labor that took place in São Paulo, that Brazilian megacity where crime and violence run rampant and where routinized killing takes place involving police and an organized crime groups
The conservative turn in Linguistic Landscape Studies (Shohamy & Ben-Rafael)
Review
Jan Blommaert
29/08/2016
14 minutes to read
The very first issue of a new academic journal called Linguistic Landscape (vol 1/1-2, 2015, John Benjamins) contains much to be concerned about. It proposes a self-stereotyped scope to a vibrant field with great potential.
