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MeWe: Mark Weinstein’s technological utopia

Paper

Nikki Bergmans

12/06/2023

15 minutes to read

This article unravels how Mark Weinstein questions the surveillance capitalist hegemony of Silicon Valley and discursively constructs a technological utopia by translating his beliefs into social media platform MeWe.

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PragerU Kids: Radical right-wing content for children

Article

Anna Skorodihina

06/03/2023

16 minutes to read

PragerU claims that PragerU Kids content was made as an educational alternative to fight indoctrination, but it seems like it aims to promote far-right ideology. This paper looks into how digital practices are used for radicalization.

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What We Gain And Lose By Using Algorithms In Healthcare

Article

Martijn Logtenberg

03/04/2023

10 minutes to read

Algorithms are becoming more common in healthcare. Along with this trend come questions about societal norms on knowledge, trust, and accountability.

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The political message of Revival's leader Kostadin Kostadinov

Article

Iva Konstantinova

22/02/2023

13 minutes to read

The leader of far-right political party Revival in Bulgaria has taken steps toward acquiring power in the country’s political affairs. This article explores how this far-right leader has managed to stand out in the political crowd.

Artificial Intelligence Risks in the Health Care Sector

Paper

Luna-Anastasia Riedel

09/11/2022

4 minutes to read

This short article deals with the philosophical debate about Responsibility Gap in case an AI is used to diagnose patients before meeting a medical doctor. What would happen if the AI gives a wrong diagnosis, not recognising a new illness?

War from the rabbit hole: the media literacies landscape of TikTok during the Ukraine conflict

Article

Ruben den Boer

Lynn de Munnik

24/02/2023

13 minutes to read

How does TikTok promote top-down media literacy policies on their platform? And how do users develop their own bottom-up media literacy practises? The 2022 Ukraine conflict offers an interesting case study.

Ideology and Technology

File

In this new Diggit file, we bring together discourse analytical research on the ideological impact of the tech industry.

QAnon and how they remain visible in the hybrid media system

Article

Sophie Mols

15/01/2022

11 minutes to read

QAnon keeps succeeding in spreading its messages despite the efforts of social media to censor them. This article explores how the tactics they use, real-world events, and the current media landscape influence this.