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GetContact: another threat to our privacy?

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

16/03/2018

5 minutes to read

GetContact is a recent app that got its wave of hype in February 2018. The official aim of GetContact is to block spam messages and identify calls on your phone. However, it can also be viewed as another way to threaten our privacy.

Jesus holds a smartphone to create a selfie for his Facebook timeline

Why the #ashfie and the forty-day period of fasting might not be a match made in heaven

Column

Inge Beekmans

14/02/2018

7 minutes to read

Are new traditions like the use of #Ashtags and participating in the push-ups & prayer Lenten Challenge threatening the key principles of Lent?

Donald Trump online

Paper

Asya Krusteva

Kiki Bathoorn

01/02/2017

10 minutes to read

Donald Trump knows very well that mediated visibility can be used as a political instrument and weapon. So instead of trying to control this mediated visibility, he uses mediated controversy as his strategy.

Loose tweets sink fleets

Paper

Eva de Feber

28/09/2016

22 minutes to read

This paper focuses on the various privacy practices military personnel and their relatives engage in in their military context and how they have been influenced by digitalisation.