platforms

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.

Nebula: A (partially) creator-owner streaming service

Nebula: What does creator-owned mean?

Article

j.e.n.grassere@uvt.nl Grassère

11/10/2023

21 minutes to read

Nebula is a streaming site that combines capitalist and socialist ideas. Worker exploitation and commodified individualism are addressed on the site, through infrastructures. Meanwhile, they also provide a platform for leftist discourses

Will AI save us from fake news?

Column

Nataliia Vdovychenko

10/12/2021

7 minutes to read

Attempts to decrease the spread of ‘fake news’ might come with the risks of censorship and control.

Privacy vs. Big Data: Who are we in the eyes of tech giants?

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

Carmen Gabriela Lupu

Sabine van Haren

Madelief Tresonie

05/04/2021

20 minutes to read

Big Data is the new gold. However, what exactly do platforms know about us? This case study is going to explore transparency in data collection of Google and Apple to answer the question of who we are in the eyes of tech giants.

The power of online reviews in decision-making

Article

Nadine Visser

15/01/2020

11 minutes to read

Online reviews are widely used for decision-making in daily life. Reviews of entertainment objects (e.g. films, books) are used as evidence of their quality. In this paper, we discuss the construction of "experts" on cultural knowledge online.