#politics

Protests in Bulgaria: "Mafia" Out

Article
Savina Karneva
09/11/2020
12 minutes to read

Bulgaria has faced significant protests against a corrupt government in 2020. This paper presents an analysis of how activists have used social media to coordinate political actions and gain international attention for their cause.

Poster Extinction Rebellion on a lamppost

Extinction Rebellion's Global Hunger Strike

Article
Merel Groot
06/12/2019
15 minutes to read

Controversial activist movement Extinction Rebellion organized a Global Hunger Strike to raise awareness on food shortages globally, urging governments to take action. This article examines how they used Facebook's affordances for their campaign.

How ContraPoints commands the YouTube Stage

Article
Inge van de Ven
30/09/2019
11 minutes to read

Inge van de Ven examines YouTube vlogger ContraPoints as a public intellectual in the context of strategies of self-representation in the attention economy. 

Centenary of Poland's Independence

Article
Julia Wysopal
12/03/2019
8 minutes to read

This article describes how Poland celebrated the centenary of its independence and how global media responded to it.

Brexit : An Online Battle With Offline Casualties

Article
Rebecca Jaffe
10/12/2018
14 minutes to read

In the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Leave campaign emerged victorious. This can be somewhat attributed to their effective use of social media strategies across multiple platforms. This article will explore how such tools produced this outcome. 

Alan Kurdi graffiti

The ship, the child, and the refugee debate in Europe

Column
Jan Blommaert
12/06/2018
7 minutes to read

The current refugee debate in the EU has been deeply influenced by a small handful of iconic pictures documenting the predicament of refugees and highlighting the moral positions in the debate.