Digital Media

Zuckerberg Facebook

#10yearchallenge conspiracy goes viral

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
30/01/2019
5 minutes to read

#10yearchallenge has conquered our timelines, but also face recognition algorithms and targeted advertising.

influencer marketing

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.

AFD

The AfD white men Advent calendar

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
18/12/2018
5 minutes to read

AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), the German far-right party, issued a white men Advent campaign. The political movement uses this Advent calendar to promote their new right ideology and Euroscepticism.

Anti-Referendum Protest, Bucharest Romania

The Case of Romania’s Family Referendum

Article
Alina Andrei
10/12/2018
10 minutes to read

When doing politics, doing nothing is clearly not the right approach – but doing nothing was the effective strategy by which the hateful acts of the Romanian government, framed as a Family Referendum, were stopped on the 6th and 7th of October.

Facebook, privacy,

Our data: public by default, private through effort?

Article
Romy van Geffen
07/12/2018
12 minutes to read

Review of Facebook's privacy settings: What is their idea of the level of publicity and privacy? How do they encourage users to be either public or private by presenting certain defaults?

fingerprint scanning

Why biometric data is not safe anymore

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
16/11/2018
7 minutes to read

Biometric data plays a huge role in our everyday lives. We use it to unlock our phones, for bank payments, memberships and travelling. But do we ever think about risks connected to our biometric privacy?

digital media, revolution politics

Revolutions, the digital divide and working-class media

Column
Ana Deumert
23/10/2018
7 minutes to read

Can digital media be used to organize revolutions and uprisings? Ana Deumert considers digital social inequalities in social media use, and explores their implications for developing a radical politics of the commons. 

Momo

How Momo shows us that anyone can dig in our data

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
28/08/2018
4 minutes to read

Momo has been said to be a curse, a hacker and even a maniac. What is it and does it know everything about us?